For the past month, New York’s civic hackers visited PLUTO. We are not talking about the “formerly” ninth planet, we are talking one of the most important datasets any city could provide as open data — tax lot and zoning data compiled into one massive map. In New York City, this data is known asRead… Read more »
Earlier this year, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed my current business partner and former RFP-EZ teammate Clay Johnson to the state’s Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success, which was created to “identify how it can (1) hire the right vendors (2) at the best value, and (3) hold them accountable for their performance.”Read… Read more »
Started going through my “paper” verses electronic archive (Plan on eventually scanning my paper archive one of these days) for materials around Architecture and Modeling. Came across emails between John Zachman, Gil Laware, Jim McGee, John Sowa, Jerry Weinberg and other brilliant minds at IBM that would give me the time of day to discussRead… Read more »
Our second “Tech Tuesday” event will take place on September 17th from 4pm-5pm Eastern (1pm-2pm Pacific). We’ll be taking a look at Zilino, a web-based solution that enables practitioners to host deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated engagement processes. The webinar will be hosted by Tim Bonnemann, founder and CEORead… Read more »
EPA leapt into the social media world in July 2007 with our first blog post. Ever since, we’ve been working to expand our options. That’s been greatly helped by the terms of service that GSA has negotiated on behalf of all federal agencies (most agreements contain clauses we can’t accept as federal agencies for variousRead… Read more »
This post was submitted by Tim Bonnemann of Intellitics, Inc., an organizational member of NCDD. For anyone still undecided about attending what’s shaping up to be another great IAP2 conference, here are a few quick links to help win you over: Conference at a glance (PDF) Pre-conference training program Huge focus on tech this year!Read… Read more »
We’ve all come across a self-serving leader at one point in our professional careers. They are the type of leader who is motivated by self-interest and adopts the “give a little, take a lot” mindset. Self-serving leaders make their own agenda, status, and gratification more of a priority than those affected by their thoughts andRead… Read more »
Government faces the proverbial crossroads so often that it is almost not worth using the metaphor. But one advantage of a moment of crisis, like our recent economic downturn and budget woes, is that it leads to wholesale review of how we run the day-to-day business of government. In IT, this has led to centralization,Read… Read more »
“Top 10 low-cost, high-impact strategies for Federal Government Officials” will be held on Thursday, August 29th at 12:30 PM EDT. We will candidly discuss how to address the most pressing challenges facing the federal government and offer easily translatable solutions. To register, click on the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7031083642561898240
Jonathan Feldman (@_jfeldman) is the Chief Information Officer for the City of Asheville, N.C. Asheville is a small city with a big startup and open data scene that has been featured on GovTech.com and the National League of Cities. Jonathan has helped build the case for an open data initiative by demonstrating economic development andRead… Read more »