MBTA manager goes car free
Showing off his new Zipcar membership card, MBTA general manager Richard Davey talked about his decision to give up his personal car. Original post
WiFi is coming to US subway systems, but slowly
PCMag shows how transit systems are providing wireless connections in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and the District of Columbia. Original post
How not to engage
Originally posted here: http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/how-not-engage Hot on the heals of the announced cuts to the US online transparency programme comes another example of “How not to do Gov2.0” For those of you who may not be aware, the New Zealand city of Christchurch suffered a large earth quake (6.1 on the scale) back in late February,Read… Read more »
Was IT Really Worth It? The ROI Report Card for Government IT Projects
One problem for IT Directors is how to judge the success and failure of their IT deployments and how to calculate return on investment (ROI) for technology. Because government does things due to law, rule and regulation, it is required to undertake some tasks and this clouds the issue for how to gauge the valueRead… Read more »
Telling the truth
Some people think Blackburn is a bit of a trailblazer on the social media side of things. I’d much rather people looked to Kirklees when handing out such accolades. However, what I do think I can comment on, what I do think I am qualified to comment on, is the state of social media inRead… Read more »
Civil Protection 2.0 – More from Elena Rapisardi in Tuscany
Some of you will remember an earlier blog post about the webconference that Elena Rapisardi and I convened, in January, 2010, among people in Virginia, New Orleans, Boston, Italy (University of Ferrara campus) and in Dublin, with the generous assistance of Management Concepts staff. Elena, a member of the GovLoop community, continues her groundbreaking effortsRead… Read more »
Continuing transparency efforts despite funding cuts
Many blogs and news outlets recently expressed concern with the drastic $32 million cuts to the Electronic Government Fund in the proposed Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act (see Huffington Post, Cairns Blog, and Computer World, among others). As an open government advocate, I am also disappointed in the proposed cuts to the Electronic Government Fund andRead… Read more »
Aphorism 50
Be wrong as fast as you can. Andrew Stanton, quoted by Kevin Koch Original post
2011 PMF Data Visualization: Semifinalists vs Finalists
[Also posted here] I spent a good deal of time gathering and sifting through the lists of 2011 semifinalists and finalists, cleaning up school names and gathering latitude and longitude information for each of the schools I saw represented in the data sets. At present, I have not had a chance to do the sameRead… Read more »
Iyengar on Free Access to Law in India
Prashant Iyengar of Alternative Law Forum and the Center for Internet and Society, has posted the abstract of his 2010 report on free access to law in India, entitled Free Access to Law: Is It Here to Stay? India, Country Report (July 2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Sometime in early 2008, Sushant Sinha,Read… Read more »