Posted on July 9, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
My June 21, 2010 testimony to the New York City Council regarding Council bill Int. 029 regarding opening up New York City’s government data online… My bit begins at the 6:30 minute mark:
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Posted on May 30, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
My O’Reilly interview at Gov 2.0 Expo in DC last week; please excuse the choppy quality, which seems to cut out 3-5 words every 30 seconds or so!
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Posted on April 11, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
Video of my keynote address to Open Gov West, March 2010 in Seattle, about open government in the New York State Senate; view on the Seattle Channel. Presentation slides are here.
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Posted on March 8, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
The New York State Senate gets a lot of bad press. There is, however, a great deal of work going on behind the scenes to help make the Senate as an institution more transparent, efficient, and participatory for the long-haul. This Spring, we’ll be telling that side of the #NYSenate story to audiences ranging from [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
Webinar given with Acquia on how to use Drupal to meet Obama’s Open Government Directive… I start speaking about 20 minutes in; recording here.
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
The US General Services Administration invited me to DC to give a webinar about how we executed open government initiatives on NYSenate.gov using Drupal that closely mirror many of the requirements Federal Agencies now have to meet under Obama’s Open Government Directive. Listen to a recording of the webinar.
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin
In April ’09 I gave a keynote about how we helped pilot new efficiency and collaboration strategies at the NYS Forum’s IT Greening Conference…
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Andrew Hoppin
I’m excited about Open 311 DevCamp coming up on October 24th… Here’s what I hope we can map out at the event: How to allow 311 data to flow Local <–> State, enabling new 311 data to be sourced from constituents in NY State via NYSenate.gov, and also helping Senators to leverage 311 data to [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2009 by Andrew Hoppin
Slides and audio from my Sept. ’09 “Governing Online” webinar for the New Organizing Institute. If you didn’t attend the webinar, NOI asks that you make a donation to get access to the content.
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Posted on November 13, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
We need humor in these trying times– preferably didactic humor that gives us a new perspective or that makes us feel liberated and inspired. There are few clandestine organizations on Earth today who provide that too us as consistently and dramatically as The Yes Men. Thanks to them, 1.2 million copies of newspapers appearing to [...]
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