Fall Speaking Schedule

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

I’ll be giving a number of invited presentations this Fall, focusing on what we’ve learned by executing our Open Senate initiatives in New York State, and how these lessons apply to the potential to open up and streamline other government entities.  Broadly relevant themes and lessons learned relate to use of Gov 2.0 technologies, open-source [...]

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Open Senate Overview

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

A lot of people are asking us these days for a comprehensive stem-to-stern overview of how we accomplished our open government work in the New York State Senate, which made me realize that we’ve never published the entire story in one place So, in hopes that it is useful to our peers inside and outside [...]

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The Virtuous Circle of Open Government & Streamlining Government

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

Yesterday the national Technology CEO Council just released a plan for how to save $1 trillion via technology-enabled government streamlining at the Federal level.  The plan is credible, and it’s great that it’s making the rounds at the White House this week.  They didn’t say it in the report, but there is a virtuous circle between open [...]

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Andrew Cuomo Releases OpenNY Plan

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

Andrew Cuomo today released his “OpenNY” plan, part of his expanded “Clean Up Albany: Make It Work” agenda.  The plan has three major components, which apparently will be instantiated through a central OpenNY website, as well as new OpenNY websites for each New York State Agency and Authority. Open Information, a commitment to proactively publishing [...]

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Interview with ResearchAccess at the Gov 2.0 Summit

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

Video of my interview with Joshua Hoffman at the Gov 2.0 Summit today in DC:

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Interview on Twit.tv with Leo LaPorte

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

Video of Leo Laporte’s Gov 2.0 special on Twit.tv last week; I’m interviewed starting at the 24:00 minute mark about our use of Gov 2.0 technologies for transparency in the New York State Senate.  Other interviewees are Tim O’Reilly, Jen Pahlka, Carolyn Lawson, and John Wonderlich.

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CapitolCamp 2010

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

More than 150 people convened in Albany on August 19th and 20th for CapitolCamp 2010, to conduct an open and frank full-day discussion about how to build a more transparent, efficient, and participatory State government by leveraging “Gov 2.0” technologies. Co-hosted by the New York State Senate and the Office of the CIO of New York [...]

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PBS Television Interview regarding Open Senate

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

Quicktime of a WXXI TV interview that aired on PBS TV in Rochester on August 16th, 2010.  Annoyingly, the Quicktime viewer for this video doesn’t appear to play properly in Chrome or Firefox on OS X– try Safari.

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Video of my New York City Council Hearing Testimony on Open Data

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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Interview on Internet Evolution TV

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin

9 minute video interview from Gov 2.0 Expo in June 2010 on Internet Evolution TV regarding our open government work in the New York State Senate:

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