This week I have the pleasure of blogging from the 20th Clean Gulf oil spill conference right across the bay in Tampa, FL. The conference hosts oil companies, government agencies and inventors with the latest and greatest oil recovery technologies. Last night I caught up for dinner with Billy Nungesser, President of Plaquemines Parish andRead… Read more »
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Five Recommendations for Educating Leaders in Technology and Government 2.0
Originally posted at my blog http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Last month I attended the Belfer Center’s Conference on Technology and Governance 2.0. The conference featured amazing attendees – Ellen Miller (Sunlight), Mike Klein (Sunlight), Karen Gordon Mills (US Small Business Administration), Mitch Kapor (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Paul Sagan (Akamai), Susan Crawford (Cardozo), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), Nicco Mele (Harvard/EchoRead… Read more »
Open Government is Not Dead: The Conversation is Just Maturing…
This installment of my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group (POCG) Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, was inspired by the recent Open Government Community Summit held at NASA on October 13, 2010 and many recent blog postings discussing variations on the death, sophomore slump and/or decline of Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
Opening up #Gov2.0 = De-Mystification
Repost from http://www.thegovernmentgeek.com It’s no secret, more and more Americans distrust their government, especially at the national level. The table on the right gives a small taste of increasing discontent with federal agencies. Part of the problem is the sheer size of gov’t….it often begs the question, what the hell are they doing all day?Read… Read more »
Go West
I’ve had a really interesting week last week. I spent time in Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria. In Edmonton, I delivered social media training at the Affects Symposium hosted by the Alberta Federal Council. I ran three separate workshops on social media: (1) Putting the Social in Social Media; (2) Social Media 101 for Personal DevelopmentRead… Read more »
Four Scenarios of the Future of Gov 2.0
“Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.”(From the opening of Plan Nine from Outer Space) The idea for this posting cameRead… Read more »
My CityCampSF: Lessons and Next Steps
I am involved with the Gov 2.0 movement because I believe it will bring important change to calcified and inefficient governmental structures. CityCampSF, an unconference held yesterday in San Francisco, will be a success if real actions stem from the event discussions and connections. I got two action items from the event that I intendRead… Read more »
Lima on the LexML Brazil Free Access to Law Project
Dr. João Alberto de Oliveira Lima of the Federal Senate of Brazil has posted The LexML Brazil Project, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In his post, Dr. Lima describes the LexML Brazil free access to law project, and the technology underlying its LexML Brazil PortalRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Roundup (Week of October 15)
Open government changes things at the VA, GSA helps .gov and .mil agencies engage the public, civil servants show their communities the full extent of a day in the life of law enforcement officers, and AT&T offers a new encryption service for mobile calls, all in this week’s version of the Gov2.0 Roundup. –Can openRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: October 15, 2010
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Salon interviews Steven Johnson, the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From,” who argues that what we need to focus on is making incremental changes rather than trying to achieve singular epiphanies or game-changing brakthroughs. Great advice for career govvies! Mashable explores the difference between facebook and twitter, saying that the former isRead… Read more »