Dries Buytaert, project lead for the Drupal open source content management system, believes Drupal will be used for many open government websites created in response to the recent White House directive.
More Open Gov Sites with Drupal?
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Tag Archives: open government
Gov 2.0 Predictions for 2010
Social Computing Journal has 7 government 2.0 predictions for 2010, which include: self-service integration (and mashups), increased transparency and citizen involvement (due to apps), and incorporating more social media.
Governing on Open Government
White House Wants to Release More Data
The White House has asked agencies to publish data (to Data.gov) within 45 days, and:
Following the three-data-set action, each branch has to create an Open Government Webpage at http://www.[agency].gov/open to function as the “gateway” to activities in that area. The site must also include a mechanism for public feedback about the process, and government agencies must respond to the comments they receive. And within 120 days they have to publish comments on how they plan to improve their openness policies.
That’s good work!
NYTimes on Local Government Data
The New York Times has a great article today on local governments that are opening up their data to be used in mashups, apps, and mobile apps (think iPhone apps).
Open Gov Challenges
Accessibility and Transparency
On Security Worries with Gov 2.0
Gartner analyst Andrea DiMaio: When Security Concerns Are An Elegant Excuse Not To Tackle Government 2.0. I have to agree completely, and don’t miss this great quote:
… the crux of the matter is (1) to empower employees to access external social networks (2) in order to find useful avenues to deliver value to both their constituencies and their agencies.
Example Gov Crowdsourcing Sites
White House Website Expansion
In a follow up to the recent Drupal rollout at whitehouse.gov, the White House media team recently spoke with Drupal developers. Whitehouse.gov is working to roll out custom news feeds, user authentication, and more tagged, searchable raw data. They are also looking into releasing some of their custom code to the open source community.
Good and Bad of Gov 2.0
Analyst on the good and bad of Government 2.0, from IT Wire.
Interviews from Gov 2.0 Summit
Video from the Gov 2.0 Summit, including interviews with Tim O’Reilly, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Craigslist’s Craig Newmark.
Strengthening Relationships with Citizens
The Georgia Municipal Association has a good resource titled From e-Government to e-Governance: Using New Technologies to Strengthen Relationships with Citizens.
Solving Budget Crisis with Social Media
Great speaker at the Gov 2.0 Summit from the City of Santa Cruz on solving the budget crisis with social media:
Like many local governments, the City of Santa Cruz used technology from UserVoice.
Ann Arbor’s Digital Improvements
Recently we posted the list of top digital cities of 2009. The Great Lakes IT Report has a good explanation of why the City of Ann Arbor moved up the list to #5, including programs like a citizen request system, new GIS resources, email notifications, and a new online permitting and development review and inspection website.