Category: Government 2.0
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Let’s Do It San Francisco – Next Steps
The Let’s Do It movement is inherently grassroots and requires a massive volunteer effort. Since I publicly floated the idea on Thursday, the response has been positive, with support from the director of the SF Neighborhood Empowerment Network, line-level SF city employees, Craig Newmark, and, very importantly, Ben Berkowitz of SeeClickFix (a Web, phone and…
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Space is the Place – NASA on Gov 2.0 Radio
If you’re looking for a glimpse into how earthpeople and their governments are evolving, what better way then to check into NASA’s two April appearances on Gov 2.0 Radio. This month, we’ll go coast to coast with conversation with Beth Beck about NASA’s social media initiatives, and Gretchen Curtis on the space agency’s pioneering cloud…
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Cleaning Up All Dumping and Graffiti in SF in One Day
You may have heard the story of how on May 3, 2008, 40,000 volunteers picked up all the trash in the country of Estonia. Since then, similar “Let’s Do It” actions have been organized from Bangalore to New Dehli. In the U.S., there’s been a lot of action around technology and government, and conferences with…
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Social Media for Capacity Building
I’ve never been much of a technologists, but communicating about government reform using network tools has quickly translated into a certain level of thought leadership in gov new-tech circles. However, as a City of San Francisco friend reminded me over lunch today, innovation ≠ technology. My driving interest in Gov 2.0 centers on flattened hierarchies,…
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The Tabula Rasa of Personal Computers
(Apologies for the non-original headline, but it’s perfect in so many ways)Despite having owned an original blue clamshell iBook and an occasional iPod, I’m definitely not an Apple fanboy. Which is one big reason I looked on the coming iPad with disdain. However, a few weeks back I was watching my 5-year-old son struggle to…
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The Future of Citizen Services
I m prone to idea flurries. Regularly, these idea flurries result in some kind of social media project. They ve often included a domain name, and, back before we called it social media, a blog. Some have been successful, like savecivicpark. Others, not so much, like enviroinvestors or traveltokyojapan. In the last couple years, the…
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#yeg: Critical Mass for Gov2 Awesomeness
There are certain governments that quickly come to mind as groundbreakers in the fledgling Gov 2.0 movement: State of Utah, City of San Francisco, City of DC, Manor, TX. Edmonton, Alberta is making critical strides of awesomeness in joining that pack. From last week’s Open311 announcement to Saturday’s Open City Workshop, Edmonton – known on…
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Twitter, Time & Tools: TweepleML, TheTwitCleaner, MyTweeple
This is a quick ramble about time, and about some favorite Twitter tools. First, time. I know that people use different social tools in different ways. However, I’ll always fight for two-way communication when that’s what the tool enables. That’s also because it’s offensive when someone wants to give you all their ideas and thoughts,…
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The Open Gov Challenge – Get Involved!
As part of the Obama administration’s Open Government Directive, dozens of federal agencies are scrambling to put together “open government” plans. In an amazing example of how fast Gov 2.0 ideas, tools and ideals are taking hold in the federal space, nearly all of the agencies are using the collaborative tool IdeaScale to allow citizens…
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