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Johann Höchtl

Opening Data.Gov with a new open source version, Open Government Platform (OGPL) - Greg... - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 27 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on May 21 that Data.Gov partnering with the Government of India National Informatics Centre has produced an open source version of Data.gov
  • The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on May 21 that Data.Gov partnering with the Government of India National Informatics Centre has produced an open source version of Data.gov that is being made available today, the third anniversary of Data.gov. The open source product, called the Open Government Platform (OGPL), can be downloaded and evaluated by any national Government or state or local entity as a path toward making their data open and transparent
  • The Open Government Platform (OGPL) is a growing set of open source, open government platform code that allows any city, organization, or government to create an open data site
  • Johann Höchtl on 27 Jun 12
     
    data.gov is now an open source stack
Johann Höchtl

The Government 2.0 Forecast For 2010: 7 Predictions | SocialComputingJournal.com - 0 views

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dion Hinchcliffe­ forecast 2010 gov20 gov2.0

shared by Johann Höchtl on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Social computing will continue to grow in government, but won't hit critical mass in 2010.
  • Don't forget that there was some clamping down on social media in government during 2009 including the Marines restricting access to services such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter. Progress in 2010 will be better in state and to a lesser extent local government. The federal government will also struggle with a consistent policy and approach for internal and external social computing, which probably won't emerge next year.
  • Open data goes back to the drawing board. I've been bullish on open data and APIs for years and the government got religion in 2009 with data.gov. But the usage is down as government workers and businesses realize that the data is often far out-of-date and not in forms that can be used operationally.
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  • Cloud computing will go big. While many agencies will just use the technologies internally for now in order to have public options later, there is tremendous interest in the cloud
  • Government portals (rightly) continue to incorporate social media, but deep engagement will be elusive for now. I've seen many overhauls of government portals this year, including Utah.gov and the Department of Defense, prominently incorporate social media right on their home pages. To be clear, these are major advances for the government to make on the internal/external boundary and I encourage them.
Johann Höchtl

Help us Open Source NASA.gov - open.NASA - 0 views

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  • The use of open source software, cloud computing technologies, and an integrated approach to search, video, and social media seems almost common-place in industry these days. Yet government websites aren’t quite there with the exception of a few noteable exceptions (not an exhaustive list by any means). This is why I’m so excited about that NASA has recently released an RFI (Request for Information) for information on how to build a better public website nasa.gov and intranet insdie.nasa.gov. This is a really big step for NASA, but,we truly need your help.
Leo de Carvalho

Gov 2.0 Events Notícias do Grupo | LinkedIn - 0 views

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  • Leo de Carvalho on 03 Jan 11
     
    2010 Gov 2.0 Year in Review Here are the themes, moments and achievements in the Gov 2.0 world that made an impact in 2010.
Parycek

Language in Government 2.0 - 2 views

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  • Parycek on 27 Mar 10
     
    Government 2.0 Los Angeles: Bill Grundfest, the Golden Globe Winning Producer and Creator of "Mad About You" speaks with Gov20LA Founder and You2Gov CEO, Alan W. Silberberg. Together they explored how language is used in the Government 2.0 "Gov 2.0" and other Technology spaces.
Johann Höchtl

Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
  • will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
Johann Höchtl

Consumer | Data.gov - 0 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 01 Jun 13
     
    Attempts to make data.gov to a community portal? Consumer view
Johann Höchtl

Cities | Data.gov - 1 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 01 Jun 13
     
    Open Government Data USA gets a localized view: Cities and States .data.gov
Johann Höchtl

Directgov Syndication API | data.gov.uk - 0 views

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API opendata UK RESTful rest CKAN

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  • Johann Höchtl on 10 Jan 11
     
    Open Data API von data.gov.uk, eine Implementierung von CKAN
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Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov | Common Dreams - 0 views

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Torture Prosecutor Tops 70 000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov | Common Dreams

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  • thinkahol * on 12 Sep 11
     
    A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. I've been working with activist Bob Fertik to organize support for the question, and several progressive bloggers urged readers and Obama supporters to vote for it last week. Digby, who has written extensively about the Bush administration's abuse of the rule of law, recently reported on the progress:
Parycek

Gov 2.0 guide to cloud computing - 0 views

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cloud computing Gov20

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Cloud computing is a computing model that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. It enables convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources, which may include networks, servers, storage or software applications.
Johann Höchtl

Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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  • Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 
  • Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
  • Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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  • 1) what data should the government share and 2) how does data influence the public sphere
  • The optimists decry the modern instantiations of bureaucracy and policy in which democratic governments operate as the source of democratic ills and support the normative idea of an informed and engaged public.  Pessimists counter that the normative model of democracy most accepted in the literature is a novel construction that is not grounded in the natural behavior of citizens.
  • The innocence of Americans is either explained as a rational choice under the principle of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957) or explained as something inherent in the lack of mental sophistication in humans.
  • Government 2.0 attempts to correct the problems of information diffusion by assuming that people are simply unable or unwilling to find information in the offline world.  If the barriers to information acquisition are lowered then, the theory goes, people will be more likely to find, synthesize and use information in decision-making processes.
  • Feedback loops: Who will be active in these loops? How will the public respond? 
  • People usually think about explicit citizen participation, but some of the most pwrful Web 2.0 tools aren't about that: it's about ppl who are participating w/o knowing they are participating. Google is actually one of the great engines of harnessing participation, anyone who clicks on a link is participating, a link is a vote, meaning hidden in something they're doing already. Wikipedia isn't the only place where people are contributing.
  • The amount of data being shared/collected about people is growing exponentially, old notions of privacy need to be replaed by ideas of visibility and control: give more control over who gets to see it. We are better off with more visibility and control than stopping people from collecting data. The data is incredibly useful, applicaitons depend on data, people willingly giving up that privacy about where they are all the time.
  • many programs go wrong, generically, (what worries me) government is still very much an insider's game, we have not yet really built a system that allows real participation
  • Another gov 2.0 observation: it's very hard for a government agency to start over, it's not like private sector, where companies with bad ideas go out of business. Government agencies don't go out of business. (consumers benefit from newspapers going out of business) We don't have creative destruction in gov't, the basic machinery of it just gets bigger and more entrenched. Need to figure out how to start over: what not to do
  • The toughest part about Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, etc, might be the role of management. It used to be about defining the outcome and monitoring the progress towards that outcome. In Web 2.0 you don't know what that outcome is, it's a huge leap of faith, and takes a tremendous amount of adjusting to that approach. Do we need a different set of metrics? Yes. Media is intersecting with technology, technology is a new channel for media, even Hollywood is changing: oh my goodness, we have to create entirely new financial models!
  • "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." It's a cultural issue here, people are stuck in the past and we need a new wave of innovators or we should just expect slow results.
Parycek

Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 - 1 views

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Full Publication (pdf)
Parycek

7 Social Media Takeaways for Dot-gov - 0 views

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opengov gov20 socialmedia howto

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    As we traverse to a new decade, here are seven takeaways to help small, medium and large agencies use social media to be more transparent, participatory and collaborative. Take what you can use.
Parycek

What is the Definition of Government 2.0? - 1 views

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  • Parycek on 27 Mar 10
     
    This is about the merger of Government 2.0 and Citizen 2.0 = People enforcing their ownership of the Government. Not vice-versa.
  • Johann Höchtl on 27 Mar 10
     
    >> People enforcing their ownership of the Government. Not vice-versa. Das wäre eher die Definition für Open Government für mich, Gov 2.0 ist die Verwendung von Web 2.0 Komponenten im Government-Prozess. Was über Umwege "enforcing their ownership of the Government" bedeuten kann, aber eben nicht muss, weil es keine Garantie dafür gibt.
Johann Höchtl

The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions... - 0 views

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crowd sourcing government gov2.0 innovation contest

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  • Johann Höchtl on 12 May 11
     
    "think the biggest problem is how to decide which problems to work on. That can't be solved as long as only one party has exclusive control over which problems are presented." (reddit)
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