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:
Category Archives: open data
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. Presentation slides are here. View the video on the Seattle Channel:
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 better serve their constituents.
- How to help smaller cities and towns in New York State to have a viable 311 service at low cost, potentially with State support and/or coordination.
“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 about Virtual Reality System Engineering Environments for the Space Program.
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 days at NASA Headquarters running into and occasionally constructively running through cultural brick walls, many of which derive from the lack of perception inside NASA Headquarters of demand from the public for making government data open AND accessible. In the case of NASA, which has a massive trove of data to share, the latter is often a bigger challenge than the former.
The clear articulated set of principals for data openness and accessibility that came out of the Sebastapol meeting- and a clear public demand by highly credible citizen “customers”- will go a long way towards validating the problem statement that we attempted to convey to management at NASA HQ. Content and data managers from across Federal Agencies are beginning to network and share problems and solutions and new precedents amongst themselves, so this is a potent time to propose, implement, and then propagate change regarding government data inside Federal Agencies.
Thank you for the help, Sebastapolians! And one friendly suggestion/critique– get some people to the next meeting who are actually working on causing change on these issues from inside government– your invite list for this kickoff meeting didn’t appear to include anyone who is actually managing data or setting policy for same inside a government entity! 🙂