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Johann Höchtl

GSA Takes Another Big Step Forward - 1 views

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SNS social web sites agreement USA

shared by Johann Höchtl on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Having a terms-of-service agreement with these new media providers will make it easier for government agencies to create pages and use them to dramatically increase access to information, offer education on government services, and further empower citizens to interact with government.
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Great News for Open Governmen... - 0 views

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open data UK brown

shared by Johann Höchtl on 15 Apr 10 - Cached
  • By the Autumn an online e-”domesday” book giving “an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies
  • A new “institute” for web science headed by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt and with an initial £30m in funding
Parycek

Defeating the Dark Side of Social Networking - 0 views

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socialmedia socialnetworks participation strategy case

shared by Parycek on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 29 Mar 10
     
    BusinessWeek - Companies can't rein in the conversations happening on social networks and blogs, but they can respond to their most vocal customers
Judith Schossboeck

EU Kids Online - Second Edition - 1 views

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digitalnatives epart regulation eliteracy internetkompetenz

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  • Judith Schossboeck on 12 Apr 10
     
    Risks and Opportunities of the Digital Natives - European Perspective. S. 38: Rules and Regulations in the EU, parental mediation
Parycek

Kevin Kelly Out of Control - 0 views

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kevin kelly socialmedia change

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  • Parycek on 01 May 10
     
    Chapter 2: Hive Mind - old but ...
Johann Höchtl

112th Congress live in Congress API - Sunlight Labs: Blog - 0 views

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sunlight labs API congress US

shared by Johann Höchtl on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • 112th Congress live in Congress API
  • all members of the 112th Congress are now available in our Congress API
  • All members are now added along with their ids on other sites
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  • The email field has been blank for all but about a dozen members for some time
  • it seems that the email addresses get flooded with non-constituent communication
thinkahol *

The real Internet censors: unaccountable ISPs? - 0 views

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The real Internet censors: unaccountable ISPs?

shared by thinkahol * on 13 Feb 11 - No Cached
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    According to a new report, the Internet police are coming... and they're not wearing badges. Instead, governments are devolving enforcement powers on the 'Net to ISPs.
Johann Höchtl

Questioning Shirky's Cognitive Surplus - 0 views

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cognitive surplus Shirky value production

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead on some sophisticated task
  • True socially-infused movements cannot be forced
  • The bad news for marketers is that Shirky’s examples quietly illustrate that we can’t force meaningful social activities. They happen organically, if not accidentally
Johann Höchtl

Open Data (2): Effective Data Use « Gurstein's Community Informatics - 0 views

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opendata empowering literacy lawsuit

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • I will itemize what I think are the various elements that are required to be in place on the end user side for effective use of open data to take place
  • Internet access
  • Computer/software skills
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  • Interpretation/Sense making
  • Governance – the required financing, legal, regulatory or policy regime, required to enable the use to which the data would be put.
Johann Höchtl

Digress.it - 0 views

digress.it

annotate open data digress

shared by Johann Höchtl on 22 May 11 - Cached
  • They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Use digress.it to collectively dissect public documents like political speeches, corporate contracts or government transcripts.
  • digress.it makes this private space public, allowing communities of readers to turn documents into conversations
  • Johann Höchtl on 22 May 11
     
    Werkzeug zur gemeinsamen Annotation von Dokumenten und darauf aufbauend zur Diskussion.
Johann Höchtl

Building Tiles with PostGIS OpenStreetMap data and Mapnik: Your Own OpenStreetMap - 0 views

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GIS open data SQL mapnik

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • In this tutorial we will build a tile cache of the Massachusetts data we loaded in Part 1 and then render it in OpenLayers.
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 May 11
     
    Getting Open Data GIS to the Client
Johann Höchtl

NASA Nebula | NASA and Nebula Team Demonstrate Effectiveness of Open Government at Open... - 1 views

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cloud computing cloud NASA open source

shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • NASA attempted something new and revolutionary on March 29 & 30, 2011. The Agency hosted the first ever NASA Open Source Summit.
  • The diverse community was offered multiple methods to engage in sessions about challenges within NASA’s existing Open Source framework
Johann Höchtl

Open Data Challenge - 0 views

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opendata challenge google price

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year
  • We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
Johann Höchtl

Agile will fail GovIT, says corporate lawyer - Public Sector IT - 0 views

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agile method programming public sector

shared by Johann Höchtl on 03 May 11 - No Cached
  • The Agile methodology is meant to deliver IT projects flexibly, in iterations.
  • But the lack of clearly defined project roles and requirements is a problem for Agile.
  • There are four clear reasons why Agile won't work in government ICT. The most obvious is that government customers want to know up-front how much a system will cost
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  • Departmental budgets are managed very tightly, and they must be approved
  • Agile is fourthly not suited to public sector management structures.
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