What I hope to get from Open 311 DevCamp…

I’m excited about Open 311 DevCamp coming up on October 24th… Here’s what I hope we can map out at the event:

How to allow 311 data to flow Local <–> State, enabling new 311 data to be sourced from constituents in NY State via NYSenate.gov, and also helping Senators to leverage 311 data to better [...]

“Citizen 2.0″ Presentation at Government Technology Conference East

Slides from my “Citizen 2.0” Presentation at GTC East:

“Open-Source” Presentation at Government Technology East Conference

Slides from my “Open-Source” Presentation at GTC East:

“Governing Online” Webinar for NOI

Slides and audio from my Sept. ‘09 “Governing Online” webinar for the New Organizing Institute:
for PC
for Mac

Using Social Media to Open Up Government

Video of my presentation at the National Association of State Legislatures conference in Philadelphia July 21, 2009… Ironically, NCSL doesn’t permit the video to be embedded beyond their site, but click here to view it on theirs; my presentation starts at the 75:00 minute mark…

Make It With Us at PSFK Conference Asia 2008

Video of my panel at the PSFK Asia conference in Singapore in October 2008. My presentation begins 3:45 min into the video.

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Video: Good Ideas in 2009 in Collaboration | PSFK – Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

Video of my panel at the PSFK Good Ideas in Collaboration breakfast last week in New York. PSFK events get me up early better than any alarm I’ve ever had. Thank you PSFK. I think.

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Obama’s Space Policy Platform

I met with 15 other people in Austin on July 18th to conduct an Obama for President Space Policy Platform meeting, right after our Space Policy panel at Netroots Nation Convention. Our crew included Netroots activists, aerospace enthusiasts from the Austin area, and even former NASA officials. After several hours of debate, and [...]

Space Policy @ Netroots Nation: 2 events Friday the 18th in Austin

In addition to my reinventing government and science policy panels at Netroots Nation on Friday the 18th, I’ll be moderating the only space-related panel at Netroots Nation, entitled “Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration.”  We have a great panel lineup– Chris Bowers of OpenLeft.com, George Whitesides of the National Space Society and [...]

NASA CoLab in Congressional Testimony– sort of!

As part of the first ever US Congressional hearing simulcast with a virtual world (it wasn’t QUITE mixed-reality), the House Telecommunications & the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing last week entitled “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.”
During the hearing, Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, played a machinima video that featured [...]