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:

Video of the last NASA CoLab “Luna Philosophie” Salon at Yahoo Brickhouse

Thanks to Salim Ismail for blogging the last NASA Luna Philosophie at his Yahoo Brickhouse facility. Luna Philosophie is a regular series of approximately monthly “space salons,” and is part of our NASA CoLab program, through which we’re building open collaborative communities for NASA.
Watch the video of NASA Ames’ Tom Cochrane’s Luna Philosophie talk [...]

Open Government Data Working Group

An important meeting took place in Sebastapol last weekend (I didn’t know about it in advance, but I did wonder at the time why several folks in my Dopplr list were in Sebastapol concurrently!) to advance the cause of openness and accessibility of government data.
Good timing– the CoLab team just spent the past two days [...]