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Opportunity:  Spending of government  money should have a purpose and that purpose should be for the benefit of someone whether directly or indirectly.  The benefit might for an employee to work better and that employee might be working to benefit a group of citizens. The administration wishes to create a more transparent, effective and innovative [...]

Linked Data is now officially on its way to the commercial world. Google is creating the market incentive to drive it, one element at a time.

Postscript:  Another example of government spoofing was a prank cell phone call from India to the Pakistani Defense Minstry the day after the Mumbai terrorist attack.  The called claimed to be an Indian Defense Ministry Official and was claiming that India was going to retaliate. Planes went up in the air on both sides and [...]

Tim Berners-Lee concept of linked data clearly is a way to make data more usable whether this is public data or data within a large enterprise.   Linked data promises a future which makes related data more interoperable, discoverable and opens the door for innovation. But how do we take large existing data stores and [...]

The future of the internet will involve more authentication than it does today but here is a potential interim solution to provide some level of authentication for Gov 2.0 presence on online social networks such as facebook and twitter. standard policy of having a reciprocal link back to a facebook fan page or twitter account [...]

I keep hearing will facebook win? Will google win? Will microsoft ever get out in the running? Will twitter be bought and by whom? I wanted to offer another option. The people win.

I decided to take my Wordle data set out for another spin and make google maps from each category. Here are the maps. Hope you enjoy them! There are not 100 questions in each map because some people did not provide valid US locations and a few questions were taken out for being off topic [...]

This is my rough draft in my work with the W3C E-Gov Interest Group. I wanted to get comments from those working on social media in government as we work to finalize our recommendations. Please keep in mind this is for an international standard, so I have no assumed that 508 compliance is required but [...]

In the policy to effort session at Government 2.0 camp, Lovisa Williams of the Department of State summed up the problem of building on cross agency’s efforts as “Don’t share your best practices, share them when they are good enough.” It sounded like a good start to a blog post. For more on workplace collaboration [...]

UPDATE:  I just put this data into google maps here. Disclaimer: Wordles are often more artistic than informative but I thought it might fun to visualize the voice of the people. A lot to write about from Government 2.0 camp but I am a bit under the weather and wanted to relax a little tonight.  [...]


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