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

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:

Interview about Gov 2.0 in NYSenate and Saving Money in Government IT

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!

Video of My Open Gov West Keynote

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.

Webinar with Acquia on using Drupal to Meet the Open Government Directive

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.

Dissection of NYSenate.gov at Do It With Drupal 2009

In December, I was invited down to New Orleans to break down how NYSenate.gov was built for an audience of eager Drupalistas and Drupalistas-to-be at Lullabot’s Do It With Drupal conference…

What I hope to get from Open 311 DevCamp…

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 [...]

“Citizen 2.0″ Presentation at Government Technology Conference East

Slides from my “Citizen 2.0” Presentation at GTC East:

Video of the last NASA CoLab “Luna Philosophie” Salon at Yahoo Brickhouse

Thanks to Salim Ismail for blogging the last NASA Luna Philosophie at his Yahoo Brickhouse facility. Luna Philosophie is a regular series of approximately monthly “space salons,” and is part of our NASA CoLab program, through which we’re building open collaborative communities for NASA. Watch the video of NASA Ames’ Tom Cochrane’s Luna Philosophie talk [...]

Open Government Data Working Group

An important meeting took place in Sebastapol last weekend (I didn’t know about it in advance, but I did wonder at the time why several folks in my Dopplr list were in Sebastapol concurrently!) to advance the cause of openness and accessibility of government data. Good timing– the CoLab team just spent the past two [...]