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Crowdsourcing Transparency of Information not just Data: URI.gov-Permalinks to improve the quality of government data and a reuse of GO.USA.GOV.

Ken — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:25:48 +0000

Is there a low cost shortcut to make government data more connectable without having to tackle the barriers of a full linked data or rdf approach? In order to make government transparent, we must make government data sets able to connect to each other. One example of data which needs to be connected is connecting policies [...]

Idea for a Better Federal Workforce and a Stronger Military: A sensible benefit which helps our vets and our government..

Ken — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:17:43 +0000

I came across a story which I am sure has been repeated many times. An Army reservist who has been deployed not to long ago and now is back in his civilian job was offered a federal job which he wanted. The problem? Not salary but a key benefit which will surprise you. His private sector [...]

Friends, Govies, Countrymen, Lend us your ideas for Open Government!

Ken — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:29:19 +0000

Open Government planning is underway and a host of agencies ask soliciting ideas from the public to improve their ability to achieve their mission. I collected the current list of Federal Department/Agency Open progress pages and the links to the idea solicitation websites below… Also Data.gov is looking for suggestions for improvement at datagov.ideascale.com. Open Progress [...]

Setting up a Citizen Experience Driven Framework for Crowdsourcing More Effective Government Processes

Ken — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:18:21 +0000

Driving Open Government through Citizen Experience. My group at Susan Turnbull’s Collaborative Expedition Workshop at the National Science Foundation this week focused on determining how crowdsourcing could improve government services as part of the Open Government changes which agencies might adopt. First several concerns on using crowdsourcing were voiced: How do you prevent the crowdsourced solution from being [...]

Why does .Gov still require www.? Open Government is a User Friendly Government

Ken — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:59 +0000

Just typed in yet another .gov address to come with “page not found.” Why? Because I am efficient and think the internet should be too. I don’t type in www in front of domains anymore by default. Most commercial webmasters and ISP providers have figured this out. For some reason a lot of federal [...]