Open Government Innovation
Neil McEvoy
Open Public Services – Monetizing the Margins
The UK Cabinet Office white paper on Growing the Social Investment Market is a visionary document, laying out a framework for how government will be re-engineered wholesale to make it more socially conscious and dynamic. The key is in ‘Open Government’, including open data, open source software but more importantly entirely new modes of transparent … Continue reading
Open Identity – Shared Services Architecture
Recently in Canada the Federal Government announced the ‘Shared Services Canada’ initiative, a consolidation program intended to save $$ hundreds of millions through data-centre efficiencies. We ran a Cloud Best Practices webinar on the topic, to introduce the role that CMM might play (Cloud Migration Management). My initial introductory presentation was on the topic of … Continue reading
Harnessing Open Innovation for high performance innovation clusters
The ambitions of our sister site the Canada Cloud Business Plan is to implement what Cisco call a ‘Next Generation Cluster‘ (NGC). This refers to an ‘upgraded’ version of Michael Porter’s theorem of the role clusters play in local economic development. The role of an NGC is defined in the CATA business plan ‘Innovation Nation‘, … Continue reading
Roadmap for an Open Identity Ecosystem
Although written in 2004 the white paper Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems (53-pages) is still a timely read for the new Cloud economy we’re entering, as well as a primer for the relationship of open source software to the business of government. When you combine the activity of open standards (for example formats for Open … Continue reading
The MaaS Taxonomy
If you would like to join our ‘MaaS’ (Municipality as a Service) team one of our first key tasks is to define the ‘MaaS Taxonomy’, and then map this to some kind of apps store catalogue. For example a taxonomy of municipal apps would look something like: Municipal Apps Emergency Management Business Permits Entrepreneur FastTrack … Continue reading
Big Linked Data and the Cloud
It’s not new news, but the Gluu launch of the OpenXDI project is very interesting, and highlights the relationship between FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and Open Standards, and how this combination can enable next generation Open Government. For example XDI is the OASIS standard that Gluu is announcing their support for, and they’re implementing … Continue reading
G-Cloud Best Practices
The headline theme of our webinar earlier in 2011 ‘Open Government Canada‘ was to ask where does ‘G-Cloud’, standing for Government Cloud Computing, overlap with Open Government directives, to make the public sector more transparent through the use of Open Data et al. Principally this was answered by the combination of Microsoft’s Nik Garkusha in … Continue reading
Microsoft – Open Government Platform of the Future
For our Open Government Canada webinar, Nik Garkusha, a leading Open Data expert from Microsoft, covered the ‘Open Government Platform of the Future’. Nik described the Microsoft vision for an “Open Government Platform of the Future“, covering topics such as: How to take the Gov’t beyond just sharing data & drive more use of open … Continue reading
Process transformation through Participative E-Democracy
Technically we can describe a lot of what we call “Gov 2.0″ really as just “Gov 1.5″. By this I mean simply adding a ‘web interface’ to an existing legacy process, without modernizing the process itself, means you’re undertaking one half of the equation. Really for a transformation to a 2.0 model it’s more about … Continue reading
Participative e-democracy : To the Cloud!
Naturally one of the most powerful topics within open source e-government is “Participative E-Democracy“, which ranges from i-Voting techniques through to the phenomona of the ‘Arab Spring‘ et al, where uprisings are co-ordinated via Twitter. In short Internet technology is ideal for co-ordinating any kind of political movement, whether that be anarchic uprisings as much … Continue reading
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