Last month I attended OpenGoveWest11, a conference about open government, transparency, collaboration, and participation. The conference emphasized the benefits of open government transparency. Several examples of successful open government are found across the nation. The federal government has Open.gov, with many subsets of state data available (e.g. http://oregon.data.gov or http://data.seattle.gov/). The information below provides a framework [...]
I attended OpenGovWest11 this year for the first time. OGW discusses open-government, transparency, collaboration, and participation. Below are a number of notes and summaries from OpenGovWest11. OpenGovWest11 Local Governments and Transparency Technology OpenGovWest11 Unlocking Your Data: Emerging Data Standards OpenGovWest11 Websites and Usability Lunch at OpenGovWest11 OpenGovWest11 Creating Open, Accessible, Low-cost Documents OpenGovWest11 Syncing Government [...]
Small is the New Big: How Small, Local Governments are Implementing Innovative Transparency Technology 11 Attendees Location Jupiter: Think Tank Speakers Aaron McGowan, Robert Gilman, Bob Woods About How local and community-based efforts are producing high quality, low cost technology. Discussion Book - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm TimeGraph as a WordPress plugin and later on as an embedded application Quantum GIS, [...]
Speakers Philip Ashlock, Aaron McGowan, Nik Garkusha, Luke Closs, Bibiana McHugh, Peter F. Brown Speaker/Artist(s) InfoModerator: Aaron McGowan Speakers: Philip Ashlock, Nik Garkusha, Bibiana McHugh, Peter F. Brown (OASIS), Luke Closs About As more apps developers, governments, and citizens seek data, there’s increasing need for data standards. What are data standards, why are they important to transparency, and who is [...]
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