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