NASA fans: Vote for OpenNASA/OpenGov at Gov 2.0 LA
NASA fans: Vote for OpenNASA/OpenGov at Gov 2.0 LA. Deadline Jan 30, midnight EST: http://gov20la.org/shape-camp-agenda/most-voted.html
World Government Data – Is this the league table? Is there an international dimension?
Data Store – World Government Data Hi When I checked this out by looking at the data posted by country the results were: UK=1,699, U.S = 1042, New Zealand = 245 and Australia = 69. So on the face of it Australia is lagging behind. When I started to look at what is actually providedRead… Read more »
Conference Report: Legal Information Issues at POGW: Princeton Open Government Workshop
The workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), featured much valuable discussion about legal information. (The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #pogw. An apparently complete collection of tweets from the workshop is available here. My tweets from theRead… Read more »
Participation and Collaboration – Let’s Make It Work
Open government. Public participation and collaboration. Awesome! So let’s make it work. Let’s learn from the mistakes a bunch of us made back in the 90’s when we put up online “discussion” rooms and held online “town halls.” If you want the pay-off – if you want good ideas and positive outcomes – you haveRead… Read more »
Dreading the End of the Space Shuttle Program
Reposted from original at openNASA Note: The intent of this post is not to express an opinion on the path that should be taken by NASA or its future programs. It is simply an observation from someone experiencing the end of an era. Have you ever had the feeling of grieving even before a loss?Read… Read more »
Meet Marie E. … a job seeker from our Cleared Job Fair last week
At each of our Cleared Job Fairs, we are lucky to work with employers who really go the extra mile to meet and interview with as many job seekers as possible. Our good fortune also extends to the job seekers. Many job seekers come to our job fairs uncertain about what to expect while here.Read… Read more »
Amir Capriles is the CRM/ERP Strategic Alliances Manager for Microsoft, focusing on the US Public Sector. Amir has been around the public sector for years, nearly 10 years at KPMG and a few years on his own prior to joining Microsoft just over four years ago. Amir is the type of person you need, ifRead… Read more »
Deadline for session proposals to Gov 2.0 LA is midnight tonight (January 23):
Deadline for session proposals to Gov 2.0 LA is midnight tonight (January 23): http://gov20la.org/submit-a-session.html
Invitation to Govloop Members : Survey Australian Gov 2.0 Open Declaration
Hi Govloop Colleagues and Friends – I’d like to invite you to take part in our survey on open government. As we ar all active in this space I think doing a survey like this makes sense. Read on. I posted some thoughts around advocacy on OZloop. Probably because while we are all advocates ofRead… Read more »
Four Big Myths of Profile Pictures
The OKCupid blog measures the response rates of different types of photos on their site. Cool data! http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/01/20/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/