This past week, I had the enormous privilege of being invited to Washington, DC to attend the Academy of Achievement summit. This event – of which I knew nothing before receiving my invite – is an annual gathering of roughly 80 delegates (whose careers have shown some promise) from around the world, along with about [...]
Entries from October 2012
The Power of Weakness and the World’s Relationship with America
Visualizing Open Energy Data in Canada
If you haven’t seen it yet, Glen Newton has done some really awesome visualizations of Canada’s energy production/consumption data. Here’s a version I “edited”: What is cool is that, what I mean when I say “edited” is that any of the colour bars can be dragged vertically, so one can move around the components to [...]
Doing Government Websites Right
Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website – Gov.uk – does a lot of things right. I’d love to see more governments invest two of the key ingredients that made the website work – good design and better analytics. Sadly, on the design front many politicians [...]
Playing with Budget Cutbacks: On a Government 2.0 Response, Wikileaks & Analog Denial of Service Attacks
Reflecting on yesterday’s case study in broken government I had a couple of addition thoughts that I thought fun to explore and that simply did not make sense including in the original post. A Government 2.0 Response Yesterday’s piece was all about how Treasury Board’s new rules were likely to increase the velocity of paperwork [...]
Broken Government: A Case Study in Penny Wise but Pound Foolish Management
Often I write about the opportunities of government 2.0, but it is important for readers to be reminded of just how challenging the world of government 1.0 can be, and how far away any uplifting future can feel. I’ve stumbled upon a horrifically wonderful example of how tax payers are about to spend an absolutely [...]
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