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Citizen Audit: Which federal agencies have published open government plans 2.0 online?

If you look at the White House open government dashboard, you might be forgiven for thinking that all agencies had complied with the mandate to post plans, publish “high value” datasets to Data.gov and implemented them. It’s all “green” and “yellow...
Posted May 7, 2012 with 14 views     
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No joke: Open data fuels transparency, civic utility and economic activity

  Is the open data movement a ‘joke‘? Canadian blogger Tom Slee published a post yesterday that made that claim, writing that “it’s not a movement, at least in any reasonable political or cultural sense of the word” and that “it’s doing nothing...
Posted May 2, 2012 with 13 views     
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A Definition for Civic Innovation

Out in California, Tina Lee asked about the best definition for civic innovation. As someone who has served as a fellow in the City of San Francisco’s Department of Technology Services, Lee has some personal context and interest. According her...
Posted March 17, 2012 with 66 views     
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On the Ambiguity of Open Government and Open Data

A new paper on “The New Ambiguity of ‘Open Government’” by Princeton scholars David Robinson and Harlan Yu is essential reading on the state of open government and open data in 2012. As the Cato Institute’s Jim Harper noted in a post about the new...
Posted March 3, 2012 with 51 views     
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As CNN and Fox News Fail to Put #Syria on TV, Twitter and the Internet Spread the News

I’m seeing upset from and others on Twitter about a disconnect between what’s on CNN now and the violence that many outlets are reporting in Syria. It feels like 2009 the #IranElection all over again, when the world finally awoke to how the real-...
Posted February 5, 2012 with 41 views     
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+1: The White House has joined Google+

+The White House  joined Google+. The addition of this official government account can be reasonably described as a tipping point for the platform. This will free other federal agencies to join, if we assume that the terms and conditions that +...
Posted January 21, 2012 with 30 views     
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It’s Not About Apps. It’s About the Open Data.

In a Fast Company post earlier this week, information architect and UX consultant Hana Schank is highly skeptical of whether New York City takes digital seriously. The city’s approach to digital development” focuses on plenty of sizzle, not...
Posted December 18, 2011 with 115 views     
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As SOPA Comes To A Vote, O.E.C.D. Calls On Members to Defend Internet Freedom

On Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development called on its members to defend Internet freedoms. “It’s really a milestone in terms of making a statement about openness,” said Karen Kornbluh, the U.S. ambassador to the O.E.C...
Posted December 15, 2011 with 73 views     
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Can a Congressional Hackathon Make the House of Representatives More Social?

It’s time to think different about hacking in Congress. Later this afternoon, I’ll be strolling over to Capitol Hill to participate in what I believe is an unprecedented event: developers working with a bipartisan group of lawmakers and staffers to...
Posted December 8, 2011 with 32 views     
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The 2012 Barack Obama Campaign Joined Google+. When will he host his first @WhiteHouse hangout?

As 2011 comes to a close, the Internet and social media are playing an increasingly big role in Politics.  Google has been trying to attract politicians to Plus, with mixed success. That’s changed rapidly over the last month. Google’s published...
Posted November 24, 2011 with 41 views     
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Congressional Supercommittee Is An Open Government Failure

The supercommittee isn’t looking super today. The New York Times reported this afternoon that Congressional lawmarkers concede that budget talks are close to failure. "Partisan Fail" by David @Colarusso Why? Politico’s chief White House...
Posted November 21, 2011 with 47 views     
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Reps. Issa and Lofgren Warn That SOPA Is “A Bipartisan Attempt To Regulate The Internet”

Last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Representative Zoe Lofgren sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter to the other members of the House of Representatives entitled “A bipartisan attempt to regulate...
Posted November 15, 2011 with 59 views     
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