Open Government Links of the Week – June 3, 2011

“Planning 2.0 about open government”

• How GIS can be interactive with the public.
  

“Chicago’s chief technology officer has vision of Digital Second City”

“[New Data] How can governments better engage the Hispanic population?”

• The U.S. Census Bureau “released a 2010 Census brief on the nation’s Hispanic population”. It’s got some newly compiled data in it. Here are some of the highlights…
• How can governments better engage these citizens? After all, they too live in the community, run businesses, and pay taxes.

“Vermont governor signs public records bill”

“Cash-Strapped Local CIOs Test Flexibility of Software Licenses” (GovTech.com)

• “[The CIO of Oakland County, Mich.] wants software vendors to treat the county as a hosting partner. Vendors would sell software to local governments with the intent of hosting those products on the county’s cloud as part of the deal.”

A similar version of this was originally posted at the company that I work for’s product blog (Disclosure: the product deals w/ transparency, gov’t, & technology)