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2011 Gov 2.0 year in review
Sections Three dominant tech policy issues A meme goes mainstream Gov 2.0 goes local Rise of the civic startups Emerging civic media Open source in government Open government goes global Federal open...
View ArticleMassachusetts Open Checkbook: running through the ledger of choices and...
On December 5, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joined with state treasurer Steven Grossman to create an open government initiative with the promising moniker Open Checkbook. The site launched to...
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Building the health information infrastructure for the modern epatient
To learn more about what levers the government is pulling to catalyze innovation in the healthcare system, I turned to Dr. Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_ONC). As the National Coordinator for Health IT,...
View ArticleHHS CTO Todd Park to serve as the second chief technology officer of the...
The White House has announced that Todd Park (@Todd_Park), the chief technology officer for the Department of Health and Human Services, will step into the role left open by Aneesh Chopra, the first...
View ArticleSteep climb for National Cancer Institute toward open source collaboration
Although a lot of government agencies produce open source software, hardly any develop relationships with a community of outside programmers, testers, and other contributors. I recently spoke to John...
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21st century smarter government is 'data-centric' and 'digital first,' says...
Any nation’s top government IT executive has a tough gig in the 21st century. The United States chief information officer, for instance, has an immense budget to manage — an estimated $80 billion...
View ArticleWhat responsibilities and challenges come with open government?
A historic Open Government Partnership launched in New York City last September with 8 founding countries. Months later representatives from 73 countries and 55 governments have come together to...
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How to start a successful business in health care at Health 2.0 conference
Great piles of cash are descending on entrepreneurs who develop health care apps, but that doesn’t make it any easier to create a useful one that your audience will adopt. Furthermore, lowered costs...
View ArticleData journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap
Successfully applying data science to the practice of journalism requires more than providing context and finding clarity in vasts amount of unstructured data: it will require media organizations to...
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Investing in the open data economy
If you had 10 million pounds to spend on open data research, development and startups, what would you do with it? That’s precisely the opportunity that Gavin Starks (@AgentGav) has been given as the...
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