Friday Document Drop: 'Austin Open Government Online'
BY Nick Judd | Friday, February 18 2011
A heavy chunk of research the City of Austin commissioned as part of its website redesign process went online late last month in the form of a report to a committee of the city's legislature. The city of Austin has been ... Read More
A Legislative Framework in Place, Oklahoma Says OK to Open Data
BY Nick Judd | Friday, February 11 2011
Oklahoma joined the ranks of states with open data portals this week when data.ok.gov launched on Wednesday. The portal launch is a splashy public milestone in the long, dull, and generally boring-but-important process ... Read More
DIY Urban Development: Step One is to Start a Facebook Group
BY Nick Judd | Monday, February 7 2011
Newcastle, Australia, sounds a bit like Detroit. An industrial city with historic ties to shipbuilding, Newcastle suffered greatly during the decline of first-world manufacturing and the rise of the suburbs; as flight ... Read More
In New Hampshire, Voters Send In the Geeks
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, February 2 2011
The New Hampshire state legislature, called the General Court, saw an influx of technologists this year. Photo: Joe Hardenbrook / Flickr The New Hampshire state legislature is a whole lot geekier this year. Swept into ... Read More
State-Level Legislatures' Bills to Get First Machine Reading
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, January 18 2011
Source: OpenGovernment.org State-level open government and open data enthusiasts just got a new experiment to work with, as OpenGovernment.org, a project to provide easier access to information about the deliberations of ... Read More
Seeing the Snow for the Blizzard: Using Mobile for Government Oversight
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, January 11 2011
Over on his company blog, Mobile Commons*' Jed Alpert has a quick Q&A with the digital editor of WNYC's program The Takeaway, Jim Colgan, about a project the public radio station did to allow New Yorkers to document ... Read More
All Government is Local 2.0: manor.govfresh
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, September 22 2010
We're pleased to repost this first-hand report on the Manor GovFresh conference that just concluded in Texas, from PdF friend Jon Lebkowsky. Read More
eDem10: A Look at Best Methods for Democratic (and Undemocratic) e-Participation
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, May 6 2010
I'm in Krems, Austria for the two-day eDemocracy2010 conference (hashtag #eDem10), where I'll be giving a keynote talk tomorrow on "The Promise and Contradictions of e-Democracy, Obama-Style." The conference brings ... Read More
Microsoft's Move Towards We-Gov Continues
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, April 28 2010
Yesterday, Microsoft launched a state-by-state directory of the social media accounts of public officials and agencies at the local and state level. Read More
New Pew Report on "Govt Online" Shows Big Citizen Participation But Little Govt Engagement
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, April 27 2010
"The more we can enlist the American people to pay attention and be involved, that's the only way we are going move an agenda forward. That's how we are going to counteract the special interests." --Barack Obama, ... Read More