June 2012
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Federal Government Social Media Camp »... →
Google’s Steve Grove announced today that they’ve worked out the legal requirements for more federal agencies from the United States government to join Google+.
As close observers of the social Web know, +NASA led the federal government’s way onto Google’s “social backbone” for the Internet through the quiet explorations of their open government technology...
AIDS.gov adopts responsive Web design
According to deputy technical lead Jeremy Vanderlan, the new AIDS.gov is the first “full-site” implementation of “responsive Web design” for a federal domain. What does that mean to you? It means that the presentation of AIDS.gov is automatically adapted for optimal display to the device a visitor is using to access the site. They’re not the first online with...
Empowering Data-Driven Innovation →
If you’re interested in the many issues swirling around data-driven innovation, this 13 page collection of insights and provocations should be of interest.
These notes are the synthesis of discussions at a policy colloquium co-convened by Google and O’Reilly Media in Mountain View, California on April 30, 2012.
UK Cabinet Office on lean government: "Test,...
This morning on Radar, Nat linked linked up a new UK Cabinet Office paper on what he calls “randomised trials for public policy.” We’ve embedded the paper below Ben Goldacre, a writer and speaker at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference, co-wrote with Laura Haynes, Owain Serviceand David Torgerson.
Jason Kristufek also read it and blogged that it’s a lesson in the lean...
"Giving election data back to the people," by...
Giving election data back to the people on Prezi
Background reading on big data, campaigns and...
In June, O’Reilly Media hosted a special online conference at 12 PM ET on big data and elections. The archive is embedded below:
In October, Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” devoted a show to “Data mining the U.S. Election”
If you’re new to the topic, here’s a list of good background and landscape news articles that should be useful.We’ll...
An open government reality check with US CTO and...
In May, O’Reilly Media’s Washington correspondent, Alex Howard, moderated a discussion on the present and future of open government with the United States federal chief technology officer, Todd Park, and the chief technology officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Peter Levin. The discussion was convened in the context of President Barack Obama’s 2009 assertion that open...
Bryan Sivak to serve as new CTO at the U.S.... →
Bryan Sivak will be the next chief technology officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to an HHS spokesperson.
Sivak has been a consistent voice for smarter use of technology and meaningful innovation here in DC and in Maryland.
This appointment will go a long way to ensuring that the groundbreaking legacy of Todd Park at HHS is not just carried forward but...
US and India to officially launch Open Government...
News via the U.S. General Services Agency (GSA), which houses Data.Gov: there will be an event at the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC next week to officially launch the “Open Government Platform” (OGPL) that was jointly developed by the United States and India.
The development of OGPL isn’t news — the White House announced that Data.gov would be open sourced last...
