In March, Harvard wrapped up its 2012 Harvard College Innovation Challenge. The challenge is put on by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This year, TECH and the Innovation Challenge launched a new award – the Public Sector Innovation Award – which looked for [...]
According to an announcement by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Facebook has agreed to modify its terms of service so state and local governments can more easily utilize the popular social networking site.
Last week, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced enhancements to the city’s constituent service application for iPhone and Android smart phones. The additional capabilities of Citizens Connect 2.0 will allow city residents to not only submit service requests through their mobile devices, but now they can see and follow requests that are shared by others.
Gov 2.0 and social media tools are seeing growing use across the federal government, but two surveys try to understand how these new technologies are fairing at the state and local levels. What they find is a developing landscape with a growing amount of government IT professionals who understand its use, but are unsure how [...]
In response to what was characterized as “a royal screw-up,” on Primary Day, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday efforts by his office to track faulty or dysfunctional polling places across the five boroughs. The City’s 311 system will track Election Day complaints and Mayor Bloomberg encouraged voters to submit reports of any [...]
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.
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 [...]
A little over a year ago CivSource first reported on the development of an open source, social media tool by Lockheed Martin called Eureka. Since then, the company has officially released the source code for Eureka Streams. According to two of the creators of the project, Streams is designed specifically to drive conversations around user [...]
In light of a recent final ruling on what will be considered meaningful use in applying electronic health records (EHR) to patient care, Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has launched an online community for healthcare providers. The Meaningful Use Community will allow healthcare professionals to share, learn and connect with colleagues to spread best practices in [...]
