Posts Tagged ‘links’
15. Juni 2009
- GovFresh – Government 2.0 – “GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.”
- Next Stop Design – “An experiment in crowdsourcing the best ideas and designs to build a better bus stop”
- Candidate Obama Beat President Obama At Web 2.0 – Government IT Blog – InformationWeek – “When Barack Obama was running for President, he made aggressive use of Web 2.0 and social media, but as president he’s been more cautious. Why?”
- Teachers and Social Networks: To Facebook Or Not To Facebook? – “…there is no clear code of conduct for teachers on social media: some automatically accept any student’s or parent ‘s request, some decline them all, and I guess there are very few in between, as one cannot selectively accept or decline invitations from students and parents without getting in trouble.”
- Data Transparency via Data.gov « OSTP Blog – Vivek Kundra: “Data is powerful. It informs and it creates opportunities. It promotes transparency and it helps to ensure accountability. Yet, it is a challenge to collect, organize, and communicate the vast stores of data maintained across the government.”
- Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines | Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy – “This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.”
- The White House – Blog Post – Wrap-Up of the Open Government Brainstorming: Participation – “On May 21st through June 3rd, thousands of you shared your ideas in Phase I of this public consultation process, the Open Government Brainstorm. June 3rd marked the beginning of Phase II, the Discussion Phase. We started with your ideas on Transparency. Hundreds of comments flooded in from across the country. Tomorrow we turn to Participation. This blog posting sets the stage for that conversation by summarizing the input we received on participation during the Brainstorm.”
- Wiki zur eGovernment-Strategie für Teilhabeleistungen und Belange behinderter Menschen des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales – “Da es bei der Erarbeitung der Strategie nicht nur um die Sicherung der Teilhabe an der Informationsgesellschaft, sondern auch um die Steigerung der Nutzerorientierung geht, hat das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Projektes „barrierefrei kommunizieren!“ (http://www.barrierefrei-kommunizieren.de) dieses Wiki bereitstellen. Hier können die an der Erarbeitung der Strategie Beteiligten, wie Institutionen, Behindertenverbänden und behinderten Nutzerinnen und Nutzern, ihre Gedanken und Visionen zu den 6 Handlungsfeldern dieser eGovernment Strategie einbringen.”
- Utah.gov Breaks New Ground with Geolocation Services and Web 2.0 Enhancements – “Utah’s official state Web site, www.Utah.gov, unveiled a completely new design, with new features that aim to provide a more engaging experience and encourage users to increase their civic involvement in all state and local government issues. “
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6. Juni 2009
- extending the peertopatent model to other fields of government – David Osimo on applying the idea behind peertopatent to the procurement and research funding processes.
- The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory – “…if you’re going to involve city residents in these issues, why stop at asking people which services they would like to cut? Why not go a bit further and ask them for input on how to keep these services, while making them leaner, more efficient, and smarter? And why not then ask for their help in making those changes happen?”
- Social Media Maturity Model – “The Social Media Maturity Model displays the seven levels of Social Media participation and integration for organizations.”
- An Open 311 System for the City of New York – a Letter to Mayor Bloomberg | DIYcity – A letter to the Mayor of New York City about developing the current 311 non-emergency service into a system with open APIs.
- The Four Facets of Web 2.0 in Government – ” 1. Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. 2. Institutional presence on external social networks. 3. Open government data. 4. Employees on external social networks”
- Budget Hero by American Public Media – Citizen budgeting application for the US federal budget. Works with the current budget numbers of the US Government. Can be embedded as a widget.
- Twenty Theses for Government 2.0, Cluetrain Style | Social Media Strategery – “20 theses for carpetbaggers, gurus, civil servants, contractors, and anyone else interested in Government 2.0.”
- mySociety: What the government doesn’t understand about the Internet, and what to do about it – Tom Steinberg form mySociety on how the internet is different from electrification and how the government can be on the side of the citizen.
- A No-Nonsense Guide for Government Employees on Social Networks – “Government employees already sign into a pretty limiting code of conduct when they get hired. There are rules about how they deal with information, how they deal with the public, how they deal with the press, what they can and cannot say. Social networks are just a different channel, but do not present any new challenge.”
- Mapumental. New project by mySociety. – “Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time – to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work.”
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29. Mai 2009
- Government 2.0: The Challenge. The Opportunity. The Future – Moya Watson about here impressions from a session about Gov 2.0. She writes about examples of applications using open data, how government opens up to the web and possible risks associated with such a move.
- 8 Principles of Open Government Data
- Mapping North Korea – Interesting example of a collaborative effort: “North Korea is in the news. Not much is known about the secretive country, but a group of interested citizens has been mapping North Korea on Google Earth using snippets of news reports here and there.”
- The next Web of open, linked data by Tim Berners-Lee at TED. – “20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.”
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9. Mai 2009
- FutureGov – “FutureGov Consultancy brings together experts with complementary skills from across government, research, IT and business sectors. The collaborative approach of FutureGov enables it to be agile and adaptable, able to work across a wide range of disciplines within local and central government.”
- Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO – O’Reilly Radar – “The news has now been leaked that President Obama intends to nominate Aneesh Chopra as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer.”
- Sunlight Labs: Blog – Redesigning the Government: Data.gov – “One thing we’ve been most excited about here at the Sunlight Foundation is the concept of Data.gov. Due later this year, new federal CIO Vivek Kundra will release a new central repository for government data and research. And while in this series we traditionally re-design federal websites, we thought we’d actually take the opportunity to design data.gov right off the bat to show you all what we’d like to see happen.”
- Convening the Tribe of Government 2.0 thought leaders in the public, private and academic sectors -
- Government 2.0 – Best Practices Wiki – “The intent of this wiki is to compile a central list of current initiatives (and eventually “best practices”) involving social media and government. These can be internal or external, marketing, HR or IT, it doesn’t matter.”
- Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS) – ” The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.”
- Adriel Hampton – Blog about Government 2.0 and social media.
- Government 2.0 – Truly new for government? | ePractice – Thoughts by Alexander Schellong on social media and government transformation at the ePractice website of the European Union.
- Peer to Patent, Community Patent Review – “The Peer-to-Patent: Community Patent Review pilot, developed by the New York Law School Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the USPTO, enables the public to submit prior art and commentary relevant to the claims of pending patent applications in Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security (TC2100). This historic initiative connects an open network of community input to the legal decision-making process.”
- Geospatial Revolution Project – “Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.”
- Citizen Engagement Through Apps for Democracy Community Edition | Apps for Democracy – “Apps for Democracy produced more savings for the D.C. government than any other initiative.” − Vivek Kundra, former CTO of Washington, DC and current Federal CIO.
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