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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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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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 Open Gov West Keynote

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.  Presentation slides are here.  View the video on the Seattle Channel:

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Spring & Summer Speaking Schedule Re: Technology for Transparency in The New York State Senate

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

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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Implementing the Open Government directive with Open Source Drupal: Seminar at US GSA’s Web Manager University

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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IT Greening Keynote Presentation

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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