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.?
6 results found
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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 -
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 -
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 -
4 votes
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6 votes