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 »
(cross posted on CG-LIMS Project Blog on Intelink-U) This week we’re going to inviting industry (and anyone!) to participate in a forum where we will: Share as much as we can to help industry help us deliver CG-LIMS Solicit input on acquisition strategy Provide a public forum for Questions and Answers We’ll do all threeRead… Read more »
You’ll have noticed the drift towards freeing up the information of the UK’s Foreign Office for others to use – the feeds, the API, the social media, and so on. Getting our travel advice especially into the sites, widgets, pages, applications that others are using is hugely important. We have to take this stuff toRead… Read more »
In the past three years, we have seen a proliferation of apps contests in local and federal government, the Armed Forces, and now in Europe and beyond. The results received mixed reviews, but everyone involved said the apps were just one benefit of the contests. Even if a single app had never implemented, bringing togetherRead… Read more »
Ning, the social networking platform that power GovLoop and tens of thousands of other communities, is getting a big upgrade, and that means more ways to interact with friends and content from the government social network. In San Francisco on Tuesday night, Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal announced “Ning Everywhere,” a new API roll out thatRead… Read more »
Today at Fedtalks in Washington, the General Services Administration’s director of citizen engagement, Gwynne Kostin, talked about its new open government platform, Apps.gov NOW. Apps.gov NOW launched in beta in August but the Gov 2.0 community hasn’t heard much about it until this morning. The new platform, available at citizen.apps.go, allows federal employees to chooseRead… Read more »
Adriel Hampton interviews Christina Morrison, HP’s public sector marketing manager, about a new survey of 103 local, state and federal senior IT professionals discussing Gov 2.0 adoption. Also, Adriel talks with Luke Closs, co-creator of the civic app VanTrash, about open data and apps contests.
Have you met Todd Park? He’s the first CTO of Health and Human Services Department of the United States. Earlier this week, he announced the upcoming launch of HealthData.gov, a new website that will publish open government health data. If you’re unfamiliar with Park, I interviewed him at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo: Park andRead… Read more »
Putting open data to work: Join Adriel Hampton and Steve Lunceford for a fast-paced discussion with Walter Luh and Gilbert Guerrero of Ansca Mobile discussing their new Pillbox app for iPhone and Android, and Andrew Wilson of SAMHSA on health mashups and the state of government social media. (Plus, check out our first show aboutRead… Read more »
With the State Department warning to Americans traveling in Europe regarding possible coordinated terror attacks, I’ve just uploaded to Slideshare my preso @ the State Dept.’s Foreign Service Institute in April about smart use of Twitter & other social media apps. in a disaster. Hope you’ll pass it on to anyone at risk. Thanks.