Open Government Innovation
MaaS – Municipality as a Service
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
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
Technologies for Open Government Innovation
Recently the City of Edmonton published an RFP for a CMS implementation, in essence for a fully managed Open Government solution. A key dimension of this is that some parts of this are ‘closed’, in that they aren’t publiclly accessible via the web. Actually to be even more specific, the distinction is that the CMS … Continue reading
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