Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has become the first Florida politician to engage with citizens on Quora – the burgeoning question and answer technology startup. A few weeks ago, Floridian Bryan Tupper posted the following question to Quora: What are Florida politicians doing to create jobs in the state? This morning, Mayor Buckhorn answered the questionRead… Read more »
In 2008, 1% of the traffic to Facebook came from mobile devices. Today–three short years later–one in three visitors are coming from a mobile device. Twitter has doubled their mix from mobile in two years. KPCB Internet Trends, Meeker’s Web 2.0 presentation, Oct. 2011 What About .gov? Take a look at your web traffic andRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Manager Chris Dixon reports. 2011 marks the low point of the four-year cycle of gubernatorial elections. None of the races was a hotbed of technology policy debate. However, the three of the four states that held elections this year all have extensive IT pedigrees that are very likely to continue under the extendedRead… Read more »
Deltek Principal Analyst Jason Sajko reports. The National Education Association’s 90th annual American Education Week kicked off yesterday; and to honor this event, Deltek is launching a weeklong blog series highlighting the drivers, priorities and expectations for the public education IT market. We start today with a top 10 list for education request for proposalsRead… Read more »
GO Transit (ON) launched a mobile application last week, developed in cooperation with students at Ryerson University. Original post
A faculty member at Ithaca College developed a mobile trip-planning application for Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (NY) buses. Original post
The Transportation Research Board released a new TCRP synthesis study on the use of mobile devices for providing real-time transit information. Original post
A guest blog by @ricroberts, CTO of Swirrl, creators of PublishMyData.com: The award winning Linked Data Publishing platform. Studies around open data often focus on the “armchair auditor”, and although these people do exist they are just a small contingent of those who could benefit from good open data. When considering the audience for openRead… Read more »
With the International Open Data Hackathon getting closer, I’m getting excited. There’s been a real expansion on the wiki of the number of cities where people are sometimes humbly, sometimes grandly, putting together events. I’m seeing Nairobi, Dublin, Sydney, Warsaw and Madrid as some of the cities with newly added information. Exciting! I’ve been thinkingRead… Read more »
What do you think would happen when you ask mobile gov innovators to pile into a coffeeshop with their laptops (and tablets) to share their smarts for the good of helping other agencies make gov available to citizens any time and any where? Well, we did just that. In late October, a handful of goviesRead… Read more »