Open Government Innovation
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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
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
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
Open311 API – Key to the Digital City
At the heart of the exciting Open Government strategy for New York is a truly momentous technical step forward for government IT: The read/write Open Data API. As the NYC document explains: “The single greatest request from the developer community was nearly uniform: A REST-ful Read/Write API for public data and services” Additionally they stipulated … Continue reading
Data Management – A key enabler to Open Data and Open Government
The second keynote presentation of our Open Government Canada webinar comes from Phil Dana, the Vice President and founding member for DAMA Ottawa and a Partner with BMB Data Consulting. As the Canadian Federal Government embraces Open Government and Open Data, this has created new opportunities and challenges for security, managing operational costs, trust in … Continue reading
Open Linked Data as the foundation for Open Government
As part of my work to promote Cloud Computing globally, I’m focused on a number of core technologies that are also key to Open Government. In particular ‘Open Linked Data’ – See my main summary of this here, where I describe that it will enable “Cloud 2.0” apps. Open Data is a very popular topic … Continue reading
NYC Digital – Cloud Roadmap for the Digital City
The Canadian Federal Government has defined a road map for their adoption of Cloud Computing, and the type of capabilities this can enable is powerfully articulated through New York’s Roadmap for the Digital City (65-page PDF). This really does offer the poster child reference model for Digital Economy innovation leadership. Their program blends together foundations … 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
Harnessing Collective Intelligence for Public Sector Transformation
An Executive Guide to the Business Value of Microsoft Cloud Computing Download: 16-page PDF This white paper is intended as a strategic overview of Cloud Computing for senior business executives in Government, providing a synopsis of how Cloud-based applications like Sharepoint might be applied to advance progress against critical policy areas.
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