During last week’s Gov 2.0 Summit, Open Government Expert David Eaves sat down with CivSource to discuss open data initiatives at the state and local levels of government. Mr. Eaves suggests that significant strides need to be made in both government culture and strategy before the widespread benefits of open data can be realized in [...]
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday that all arrival information for MBTA bus routes is now available in real-time. The real-time data release is part of a larger transportation initiative for the governor and is open to the public to develop Web and mobile applications.
According to announcement made at O’Reilly Media’s Gov2.0 Summit yesterday, a new, non-profit organization will help local governments share technology. By asking participating governments to help build a “civic stack,” Civic Commons will allow governments share resources and software that nearly all cities use.
The opening remarks Tuesday morning at Washington’s Grand Hyatt struck a decidedly more somber tone from last year’s inaugural Gov2.0 Summit. But as some comments were less enthusiastic, they also seemed to acknowledge a deeper truth about using technology to transform government.
Earlier this summer, the Obama administration announced enhancements to its Federal IT Dashboard – a website designed to monitor the federal government’s $80 billion in annual information technology investments. If utilized property, says one observer, initiatives like the IT Dashboard could be used to do far more than evaluate project timelines and spend. According to [...]
A new study released Monday by a Michigan State University sociologist finds that cities’ size and location are waning as indicators of its economic prowess. Assistant professor Zachary Neal credits the growth of communication technologies and other networks for realigning economic hub zones from places like Detroit and Cleveland to Raleigh/Durham and Denver.
As part of an effort to reduce the State of Washington’s $3 billion budget gap, Governor Chris Gregoire recently closed the brainstorming and voting period for a Web-based crowdsourcing effort. Gov. Gregoire commented on some of the citizen-submitted ideas through a series of YouTube addresses last week. Website visitors submitted nearly 2,000 ideas, with 5,600 [...]
With passage of federal health insurance reform last March, the clock began ticking for states to begin work implementing the complex bill. For state leaders, Medicaid expansion and the logistics behind setting up health insurance exchanges pose some of the bill’s biggest challenges, says Jack Meyer, professor at the University of Maryland and principal at [...]
According to a new study compiled by Accenture, both public and private sector organizations are investing more heavily in open source software than they were two years ago. Additionally, survey respondents indicated a shift in perceived reliability and speed of OSS solutions, pushing demand higher in the future. In a comparison of five industries: financial [...]
A Florida health agency and a Texas-based Community College are both utilizing a simple and cost effective cloud-based solution to help them expand services, increase performance and better serve their constituents. Opening access to information, while reducing response time and personnel overhead, sits at the core of both their strategies. The Florida Department of Health, [...]
