UN cash for green phone app
The United Nations telecommunications agency is offering $10,000 for the most innovative mobile phone application about climate change. Original post
Authors digitally autographing e-books
According to the NY Times there is an App called “Autography” proposed for the iPad where a digital photo of the author with a fan is sent to an iPad, complete with message from the author written with an electronic stylus, (“Would You Sign My Kindle?” By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, April 13, 2011).That all sounds aRead… Read more »
Open311, SeeClickFix, San Francisco and Estonia
The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office (where I work on civil law investigations and social media initiatives) this week launched a local campaign to tackle illegal dumping and graffiti, using SeeClickFix and a range of 311 services to encourage smartphone and Web reporting of neighborhood blight. The “Let’s Do It SF!” initiative also has aRead… Read more »
FTC charges Washington man for fake news stories pitching products
Last year, we posted a story on All Consuming about phony Internet news sites that try to sell you acai berry supplements and colon cleansers. The sites make it appear that products are being endorsed by reporters. Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commision filed suit against a Western Washington man they believe is behind such aRead… Read more »
How Can Social Media Help Governments Serve the Booming Hispanic Population?
The Hispanic Population in America is on the rise. The overall growth in the U.S. States of Hispanics (or Latinos) was 15,171,776 from the 2000 to 2010 Census (U.S. Census Bureau, only U.S. States). But the growth isn’t just happening where you might think it is. Take a look at this map. It shows theRead… Read more »
Social media and the 9-1-1 dispatch center
INPUT Senior Analyst Justin Spratley reports on social media and the 9-1-1 dispatch center. Frequent readers of the INPUT B2G Blog may have noticed several postings related to the rise of social media and its implications on both government services and the government technology marketplace. (I recommend taking a look at postings by Kyle Ridley,Read… Read more »
Francesconi on Structuring Legal Semantics in Legislation
Professor Dr. Enrico Francesconi of Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica and ITTIG/CNR has published Structuring Legal Semantics in Legislation, Jusletter IT, 22, Feb. 2011. Here is the abstract: The effective implementation of the Semantic Web concept faces obstacles due to the difficulties in adopting shared knowledge modelling. Promising steps forwardRead… Read more »
The Federal Coach: Natural ‘Street Cred’: Talking With the Director of the National Park Service
As the director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis oversees 20,000 employees, 140,000 volunteers and 394 national parks. With nearly 35 years of service with the National Park Service, Jarvis began his career as a ranger and was later promoted to superintendent positions in both Alaska and Idaho and regional director of the PacificRead… Read more »
Delaware reforms teacher hiring process
Delaware is reforming how new teachers will get hired under a new law the Governor signed yesterday. The new bill changes an existing rule on how offers are made to teachers. Previously, districts were not guaranteed their full share of state funding for teacher salaries until the official September 30th student count was issued byRead… Read more »
Green Business MBA Programs
Entrepreneur Magazine recently published a list of the best MBA programs for green business. Based on their assessment, some programs are clearly more substantive than others, but all seem to have a reasonable amount to offer the potential student interested in green business. Sixteen schools made the list, which includes some names you would expectRead… Read more »