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UK Uses Twitter for Real-Time Snow Mapping
So this is pretty awesome. The UK has produced a real-time snow map application. This app searches Twitter for real-time snow reports and displays them on the map. A map shows up on the screen with “snow clusters” which determine how much snow is in a given area. Users tweet the hashtag #uksnow, their locationRead… Read more »
iPad pilot – version 1.5 – More thoughts
First, check out some great comments and my responses In response to my previous post Additional Thoughts: Ok, now some additional thoughts regarding the iPad, in fact, regarding barriers to the mobile revolution in general. 1) Access to secure, reliable, continuous Wifi networks: Read this interesting article the other day and it made me think.Read… Read more »
Live Chat 12/2: Panama City Using Google Tech to Open Gov for Citizens.
The City of Panama City, Florida has become a leader in promoting open government but how? Citizens of Panama City don’t even have to go to city hall to attend city meetings. Using Google city network administrator Richard Ferrick has made Panama City a shining example of open gov’t. Using Google the the city uploadsRead… Read more »
Supporters Rock-HP Announces Most Affordable Business Netbook
Business netbooks have become a growing trend during the economic recession because many firms are looking for cheaper alternatives to traditional business laptops. Business netbooks are less expensive and are being built with bells and whistles that are of value to users. On Monday, HP launched the Mini 1103, a business notebook that is aRead… Read more »
Focusing on WHY to Drive Adoption: iPad is Current, Learning and Productive. What is Government?
These past two weeks have been a whirlwind of travel and conferences. I’ve enjoyed several typical byproducts of those types of events (networking, learning, etc…) but also a few things that are much rarer: inspiration and re-energized passion. This is largely thanks to my most recent stop: NASA’s Education Innovation Summit, held in Orlando, FLRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: October 29, 2010
Gadi Ben-Yehuda It Came from 2005: (Government Social Media activities, that is!) Here’s an interesting timeline of government social media activities. The Administration believes the problem of online trust has no government solution, reports Fierce Government IT. The CDC has published a social media toolkit. OSTP has created a committee on Internet and privacy policy.Read… Read more »
The next steps in cyber security
Did you know this is the seventh annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Get out your protective gear and we’ll relate what we learned about cyber security from Gigi Schumm of Symantec at FedTalks 2010. If you go back seven years ago to 2003 the big viruses were blaster and slammer. In those olden daysRead… Read more »
The Insight technology
In a week of hard work at the Center for Information Technology, a fact that slipped my attention. I then decided to write this post to mark what I called the technology acumen. Since 1997, we implemented the legislative branch in Fortaleza, streaming audio and video of plenary sessions over the Internet, and even workingRead… Read more »
Gartner Symposium Does Not Paint a Pretty Picture for Government 2.0
Andrea Di Maio writes: During the last week I presented and run a panel on Open Government, and I had several client conversations with US federal, state and local agencies, as well a few Canadian federal and provincial ones. Here are a few highlights: The session on open government was not as well attended asRead… Read more »