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Discover the benefits of open government through Brightidea software, specifically designed to promote collaboration while collecting, managing, and executing ideas from employees, citizens, special groups, or the general public.
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Modernizing government, egov, and government 2.0 | Governing People
Fancy coffee shop. This one happens to be Caribou, but it could be Starbucks or any other. For some it is a hideout because they have nowhere else to go.
Fondamentaux de l'Open data et de l'Open Government - Communauté digital4change.tv
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2011 Report to Congress on White House Staff Government whitehouse, salary, government, congress, ... Since 1995, the White House has been required to deliver a report to Congress listing the title and salary of every White House Office employee. Consistent with President Obama's commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress.Gov 2.0 Summit brings together innovators from government and the private sector to highlight technology and ideas that can be applied to the nation’s great challenges. In areas as diverse as education, health care, energy, jobs, and financial reform, there are unique opportunities to rethink how government agencies perform their mission and serve our citizens. Social media, cloud computing, web, and mobile technologies—all provide new capabilities that government agencies are beginning to harness to achieve demonstrably better results at lower cost. Happening September 7-8 at the Grand Hyatt Washington, Gov 2.0 Summit brings the latest in technology thinking and capabilities to Washington, with fresh voices, cutting edge demos, and thought-provoking conversations . We explore the implications of the latest technology for policy, for the design of government programs, and for the implementation of government technology strategy.
Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, September 07 - 08, 2010, Washington, DC
Traditional governance and steering, based on the top-down predict-and-control paradigm, is inert in the face of today's complex and dynamic environments. Autocratic control based on a single perspective runs the risk of missing other important perspectives and information relevant to decision-making. Democracy is equally inflexible and comes with a higher time-cost -- the majority has control and overshadows oppositional perspectives. Consensus decision-making takes into account all perspectives in an egalitarian manner but is impracticably time- and energy-consuming. It also tends to preserve the status quo, engender groupthink and reward those who are least accommodating.
The Future of Governance is Circular - Anatomy of Agile Enterprise
GovTwit - the Government Social Media Directory
The short story: GovTwit.com is dead and I’m looking for ideas on how to get it back up and running. The slightly longer version: I recently sat on a panel hosted by Market Connections, which was releasing their third annual report around the use of social media in government (you can download the overview here ), and was excited to see their latest research showed use of the GovTwit directory grew from 5% to 30% between 2010 and 2011, keeping on pace with efforts from other organizations that are much larger than my one-man-band. I was also excited that GovTwit had recently surpassed 4,500 IDs ( +300 in past three months ) and was fast approaching its third birthday, having first launched on November 20, 2008 .
Since 2008, there has been a wave of voting law changes that impose barriers to the ballot box. Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a veteran of “Bloody Sunday,” called the new laws “the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act.”
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The CitySync Challenge is now on! This unique innovation event recognizes and rewards the best ideas and apps from the community. Join this growing community of innovative thinkers! Help us identify and recognize the best ideas and apps in the region.
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The City of Ottawa is committed to improving citizen engagement, and enhancing transparency and accountability by providing public access to its data. To encourage the meaningful and productive use of this data, the City has launched an Open Data contest. The contest seeks to reward developers of the most useful, creative, and effective web-based applications and tools, to allow people to easily make use of the City of Ottawa’s data.
Apps4Ottawa—An Open Data App Contest
NYC BigApps 3.0 offers $50,000 in cash and other prizes to software developers for the best new apps that utilize NYC Open Data to help NYC residents, visitors, and businesses. BigApps 3.0 continues New York City’s ongoing engagement with the software developer community to improve the City, building on the first two annual BigApps competitions through new data, prizes, and resources. Submissions can be any kind of software application — for the web, a personal computer, a mobile device, SMS, or any software platform broadly available to the public. App that best encourages healthy behavior, aids health education and understanding of health trends, and/or improves access to healthcare resources
NYC BigApps 2.0
Welcome to the London Datastore | London DataStore
The London Datastore has been created by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as an innovation towards freeing London’s data. We want citizens to be able access the data that the GLA and other public sector organisations hold, and to use that data however they see fit – free of charge. The GLA is committed to influencing and cajoling other public sector organisations into releasing their data here too. Releasing data though is just half the battle. Raw data often doesn’t tell you anything until it has been presented in a meaningful way. We want to encourage the masses of technical talent that we have in London to transform rows of text and numbers into apps, websites or mobile products which people can actually find useful.data.australia.gov.au ? beta
Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. Easy access to other government data catalogues offering open data is provided through our Catalogues page. We encourage all users to improve government information by using it to develop tools and applications which benefit all Australians.8 Principles of Open Government Data
December 7-8, 2007— This weekend, 30 open government advocates gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the modern world, and through it governments now have the opportunity to better understand the needs of their citizens and citizens may participate more fully in their government. Information becomes more valuable as it is shared, less valuable as it is hoarded. Open data promotes increased civil discourse, improved public welfare, and a more efficient use of public resources. The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data.Are you a teacher, professor, or student? Young people across America are learning about Data.gov and we want you to be part of getting data into the classroom. As the Web of linked documents evolves to include the Web of linked data, we’re working to maximize the potential of Semantic Web technologies to realize the promise of Linked Open Government Data. We and our collaborators at the Tetherless World Constellation at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are helping to lead the way in this exciting area!