London Underground says tech can improve efficiency
A confidential report from Transport for London (UK) says that tech improvements can allow the agency to reducing staffing by 15% and save £1.8 billion. Original post
Taking government APIs seriously
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a Monday afternoon at a stakeholder event hosted by the Cabinet Office’s Transparency team on their Making Open Data Real consultation, with an interesting crowd of developers and users of public data products. We spent three hours pondering our thoughts on how greater use of open data mightRead… Read more »
Social media is changing the face of transit
In Greater Greater Washington, Matt Johnson summarizes some of the conversations about transit and social media from the Rail~Volution conference. Original post
NYC uses taxi video monitors to survey riders
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission is using backseat monitors to survey taxi passengers about their trip and their driver. Original post
Towards A Data Driven Citizen City
As we now start the next phase of our competition asking you to suggest and put forward high level specifications of visual or software prototypes that you can develop at our event, we wonder what would happen if all these data-driven prototypes were implemented. Is this what our cities would look like? the data-citizen drivenRead… Read more »
PMP Exam Tip: Interpersonal Skills a PMP Needs: 8. Negotiation
In Appendix G, the PMBOK Guide discusses Interpersonal Skills for the project manager. We are currently reviewing these one by one in our weekly PMP exam tip and we have reached the last one in the series: Negotiation. The nature of the role of a project manager makes it essential for them to have goodRead… Read more »
Code for America Drives More Efficient City Government
Read what Code for America Fellow Matt Lewis had to say about technology, government, and a better America — in Arc News: It’s no surprise that the last few years have been particularly hard on governments across the country. While there’s been a lot of attention focused on how the federal government will meet itsRead… Read more »
Your Fear of Social Media-Don’t Stick Your Neck Out
Http://LeonardSipes.Com Fifth and final article on the fear some people in government, associations and nonprofits express when whey contemplate social media. In the first article I stated, “Media respects those who do social media. They like your willingness to engage. They sometimes are willing to give you the benefit of doubt because you are obviouslyRead… Read more »
A Day in the Life of a Civil Engineer – Day 60
Day 60 Culvert Lining Project Today was the day the liner was delivered for our culvert lining project. The placement of it seemed to go well. The contractor will finish grouting the annular space tomorrow. A resident did stop by to tell us we didn’t know what we were doing, and it would never work,Read… Read more »
And Now… Another Message on Open Innovation for Realtors
Over the past few months I’ve given a number of talks on open data and open innovation to groups of realtors around the country. During these talks I have cautioned that the more the real estate industry tries to protect (e.g. not share) it’s data, the more it risks making access to data (control) beRead… Read more »