Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 - Honor Innovation!
Gov 2.0 Summit (September 7-8, 2010 in Washington, DC) assembles the leaders and decision makers from government and the private sector to discuss the concept of government-as-platform and explore the transformation of the relationship between the government and citizens.
CONTEST CLOSES 9/1/10 at 11:59p EST
THE CONTEST****
1. Read the questions under each track below.
2. Share your idea(s), hit “Create Idea” then scroll back up page.
3. Assign your idea to a category (one of the track titles).
4. The top response under each track wins a free pass to the Summit.
THE TRACKS****
FUELING THE INNOVATION ECONOMY
What are the most exciting sources of innovation that are fueling the economy and improving the way government (federal, state, local) serves its citizens?
THE POWER OF PLATFORMS
What ideas or fully realized programs best embody Government as a Platform – where government is demonstrating strategic mastery of platform thinking, and the private sector is innovating programs that can be adapted for government use?
EMPOWERING CITIZENS
What are the best citizen-driven innovations that are changing the government-citizen relationship for the better – turbocharged by the participatory technologies of the web, social media, and mobile phones, etc.?
20 results found
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Participatory budgeting (PB): Our hands on the purse strings
Five year olds in Newcastle use PB to design playgrounds, the alderman for Chicago's 49th ward hands his capital infrastructure budget to PB to implement the 14 of 36 community-designed projects voted up by his constituents, and the 10% of the citizens of La Plata, Argentina vote via paper, computer, and SMS to allocate over 30% of the city's budget.
Newcastle: http://bit.ly/bgyHfJ
La Plata: http://bit.ly/acM2Os
Chicago: http://bit.ly/cz4O356 votes -
http://DataSF.org
Opening city data for citizens has created a wealth of applications that analyze and decipher information into functional performance, operational, and programatic charts, graphs, and metrics. Instead of the government telling you how they are doing, the citizen can find out for themselves. Plus, this has actively reduced FOIA requests for publicly accessible data.
8 votes -
Open Linked Data
From finding biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease (http://esw.w3.org/images/d/d0/ISMB2010_Final.pdf) to mining environmental monitoring data (http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/demo/exhibit/demo-8-castnet.php), semantic approaches to data modeling are enabling innovation and discovery that make them worth the investment.
3 votes -
Fed: Implement ITIL v3/BPM for control of resources
Standardize "Plain Vanilla" business IT systems to provide FIT, Form and Function across the Federal Government. Use proven standards of private sector platforms to follow the entire lifecycle of people, processes and technology providing transparency to decision makers of total cost of ownership cradle to grave. It is NOT a difficult task: If we can track 10k stocks trading in milliseconds between global exchanges and 100's of different Counterparties with $$$$$$ while apropriately managing risk WE CAN more efficiently run the government. (it is not too complex). Implement the same standards and controls that you currently use in private sector…
3 votes -
iWorld
Dude 1: Hey, man what’s up?
Dude 2: Nothin’. Just renewing my Drivers License on the DMV App. Am I really that old? (Texting/Typing 100 wpm)
Dude 1: Yep, you’re OLD! I’ve got to get on the (insert government agency) App and get some work done. Do you have that document you were working on?
Dude 2: Sure. Uh, here it is.
Tap Phones
Dude 1: Cool, thanks.
Dude 2: Oh, man. The boss just pinged me. Looks like she’s around the corner at Blank’s Coffee. (Stands, still Texting/Typing at lightning speed.) Well, to the office.
Dude 1: I’ll tag…6 votes -
Challenge.gov
Challenge.gov allows federal government agencies to post challenges and contests, and at the same time, allows the public to find all challenges in one place. Challenge.gov is a powerful platform because citizens can :
-Show support for all government challenges
-Sort challenges by time left, prize amount, popularity, topic, agency
-Discuss and post solutions to challenges
-Share challenges with their friends via email and social media
-Receive email or RSS updates11 votes -
mGOV2: Social Media and eVoting
We are a research institute in Brazil (i3g institute) which is proposing the use of social networks to extend public discussions in local areas, allowing direct voting through e-Voting platforms (web and mobile phones, SMS), about local government subjects and themes, giving to the citizen the responsibility for a part of local public politic decisions.
66 votes -
6 votes
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Empowering Government Employees
We started a government employee group called Drupal4Gov. We are gov't employees working together to build our skills through mentoring, code sprints, discussions and sharing code.
Working together, we are able to demonstrate the power of the Drupal community and the way in which Gov't employees are also giving back to the community. Sort of a public private partnership in a cloud.
6 votes -
6 votes
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Interactive Data Increases Transparency, Access and Constituent Engagement: The XBRL Example
After 10 years of refinement and utilzation as a standard for business reporting, XBRL has proven its scalability, openness and agillity in appllications in Europe and Asia. It is now in the middle of Standard Business Reporting (SBR) intiatives in a number of countries. SBR initiatives ratioanlize federal agency and other regulatory reporting requirements to streamline constituent submissions and cross-agency colllaboration. XBRL has been adopted by the FDIC, SEC and other federal programs in the US. We can discuss how this new, open standard can be of value at the federal, state and local level to meet a variety of…
3 votes -
Open Source products are the driving force behing open governement
Open source is the driving initiative for Open Government. Government needs a cost effective way to adopting new technologies to allow for Gov 2.0 involvement in Community Engagement.
6 votes -
4 votes
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govAscend
govAscend is a PaaS mobile application platform. govAscend provides the application designer, cloud based storage, and export tools allowing agencies to build, deploy, and share custom-designed mobile applications without licensing, maintenance, or infrastructure cost.
3 votes -
NIGP Observatory - Spend Analysis
The NIGP Observatory is a new spend and supplier management solution that delivers the data, tools and intelligence required to give the procurement function the insight it needs to reduce costs, realize cooperative opportunities, improve contract compliance, and drive continuous improvements in spend and supplier management.
Underpinned by a unique, proprietary and proven methodology for the quick and cost effective extraction, standardization, classification and enrichment of Government agency expenditure data, the NIGP Observatory includes a range of powerful but intuitive online tools designed to allow you spend more time making decisions and a lot less time, effort and money grappling…
32 votes -
10 votes
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Spigit
Provides government entities to receive suggestions, field questions and facilitate communication with the public, thus helping government make more informed civic decisions.
Ideas generated through the platform have created measurable value, including revenue generation and cost savings.5 votes -
10 votes
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6 votes
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6 votes