Video is now available for the Law.gov Event at the U.S. House of Representatives held 25 May 2010 at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA. Click here for the conference program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scroll down to tweets from May 25, 2010). Click here for informationRead… Read more »
I was fortunate enough to end up at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC. First of all, if you are ever in DC stay at the DC Guest House. Big thanks to Laurel Ruma at O’Reilly for turning me on to the place. Second, the Expo was on the whole, pretty awesome. There wereRead… Read more »
Kathy Sierra’s recent talk on Creating Passionate Citizens at the Gov 2.0 Expo pointed out something hilarious — the LOLCat Bible Translation Project. This talk was also brilliant because it pointed out: When you connect something people are passionate about (LOLCat Speak) with something people aren’t passionate about (the Bible), the passion can transfer overRead… Read more »
Dr. GovLoop just got his latest installment of “Privacy News Highlights” and wanted to share the best of the bunch with you. Here are the top 10 links – the stuff that I thought would most interest you. US � Senate Unanimously Passes Faster FOIA Act of 2010 The Senate unanimously passed the Faster FOIARead… Read more »
The very notion of Insourcing which is defined by hiring more government employees versus government procuring these services from government contractors at this time is a sign of a very disconnected government. We at Open Government TV have watched too much hard work from the White House, to Agency leadership, to both the House andRead… Read more »
So you want to be a web superstar! Doesn’t everyone? Well, in government, administrations change, priorities change, and technologies change. But the formula for being a web communications superstar – the ones with the great (or greatly improving) websites, the best web organizations, doing the most exciting new things – doesn’t change. Web superstars followRead… Read more »
The point of this post: The real problem with Facebook’s privacy practices is the failure to manage and live up to expectations. Let me preface this by saying “I am not a privacy professional.” My government has privacy professionals. They’re good people, know the legislation far better than I do and think more and deeperRead… Read more »
Resources 1. Government 2.0 and Access to Information in Eight Countries (04/15/2010) The development of proactive data disclosure systems in the U.S., Mexico, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Finland and India are highlighted. http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/ResearchPublications/2010-15-e.htm#a4 2. Government 2.0 and Access to Information in Canada (04/15/2010) – Examples of proactive data disclosure systems that are developing or alreadyRead… Read more »
Here Comes the Next Generation of Government…(Learn more 7/6-7/7) The next generation of government is coming. And it’s coming fast. I’ve been following these changes since I came to work to the federal government in 2004 fresh out of University of Pennsylvania on a Department of Homeland Security fellowship. As the son of a careerRead… Read more »
Video is now available for the first meeting of the Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force held 26 May 2010 at the offices of Google in Washington, DC, USA. This event is also being referred to as the Law.gov Open Source Workshop, the Open Source Law.gov Workshop, and Open Source Procurement for Law.Gov. Click here forRead… Read more »