Open Government open source, open standards, open specifications. There is a huge amount of confusion and misunderstanding on what these terms mean when it comes to technology, and which products and tools fit into each category. Adobe System’s Dave McAllister gives a great primer on what each term means, and also what applies ......
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We were are the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C. last week and caught up with Rob Pinkerton, Director of Government Solutions for Adobe Systems, and Clay Johnson, Director of Sunlight Labs, after their Thursday panel on The Business of Being Open. Check out their thoughts and takeaways below. ...
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We sat down with Dr. Ron Faucheux, who was recently commissioned by Google to survey the American public on how technology can be better leveraged to save the government — and more importantly, the taxpayers their hard earned money. ...
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Laurel Ruma, Gov 2.0 evangelist for O'Reilly Media and co-chair of Gov 2.0 Expo, gives a sneak preview of sessions coming up at Gov 2.0 Expo, including City of Los Angeles, the first cloud computing deployment in the local government level. For more information about Gov 2.0 Expo, visit http://www.gov2expo.com....
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Supporting President Obama’s initiatives promoting transparency, participation and collaboration, Gov 2.0 Expo’s co-chair and Microsoft’s Mark Drapeau talks with Focus Washington TechView shares with us a sneak preview of the key angles of the Gov 2.0 Expo event. To learn more about what the event has planned around cloud computing, collabora...
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The New York State Senate chief information officer Andrew Hoppin talks with Focus Washington TechView on what Gov 2.0 means to him. Hoppin walks us through the re-launch of his organization’s website using an open source software platform so citizens can participate in the policy making process without the need to travel to their offices. Hoppin...
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Opening access to information could bring significant benefits to citizens services. Focus Washington TechView spoke with the city of San Francisco chief information officer Chris Vein who explains us how his city is developing innovations solutions to achieve open government-related applications, such as crime mapping. As an example, Vein walks us...
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Dan Israel from Google shares with Focus Washington TechView his insights on trends and best practices on cloud computing and open government. He also previews Google's participation at the upcoming Gov 2.0 Expo event, including colleague Dave Girouard who will be joined by the City of Los Angeles CTO Randy Levin and Tim OReilly from OReilly M...
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Focus Washington TechView sits down with Alex Fishman from Palantir Technologies to capture insights on how government agencies can use technology to increase their efforts on transparency to citizens. Fishman shares an example on how the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is using their government platform to share information via...
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Transparency is the key pillar behind President Obama’s Open Government initiative. Supporting this initiative, Sunlight Labs director Clay Johnson sits down with Focus Washington TechView to talk about its “Design for America” contest which challenges artists and designers to propose innovative ideas to use government data in exc...
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