At this week’s Gov 2.0 Summit, the feds seemed to have a coming out party of sorts for their new approach to IT in government – do it faster, lighter and be more transparent. Kundra & Chopra spoke about how open standards and building platforms for citizens to expound on government data should be major [...]
Gov 2.0 Summit: Vendor Smackdown
September 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Jay Hariani
Tags:enterprise 2.0·gov20·government 2.0·transparency
Data for Development
June 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Nate Nash
Jay and I had an interesting conversation with Peter Corbett from iStrategy Labs a few days ago. If you aren’t familiar with the firm, they are the brains behind the acclaimed data-off sponsored by the DC City Government – Apps for Democracy. The idea was frankly brilliant in both its elegance and execution. So much [...]
Tags:data·government 2.0·international development·roast beef·transparency
Workout of the Day
May 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Nate Nash
I had arrived in Jordan the night before. Best my circadian rhythms could tell, it was about 0100 and I seemed to have been cheated a few hours in transit. Jet lag is a funny thing. Kinda the cheap strip club of consciousness. You know it isn’t real, but man…the scenery is deceptively attractive, hours are [...]