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ChangeCamp Vancouver

This weekend ChangeCamp comes to Vancouver. If you are interested definitely sign up early.
I’ll be there of course. But better still Shari Wallace (Director of IT for the City of Vancouver) and I will be running a session together from 3-4 pm to brainstorm what data the City of Vancouver should prioritize on opening up. [...]

Posted 18 June 2009 | David Eaves § open source § vancouver ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Wedding Open Source to Government Service Delivery

One of the challenges I’m most interested in is how we can wed “open” systems to government hierarchies. In a lecture series I’ve developed for Health Canada I’ve developed a way of explaining how we do this already with our 911 service.
To begin, I like using 911 as an example because people are familiar and [...]

Posted 25 February 2009 | David Eaves § open source § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

ChangeCamp: Pulling people and creativity out of the public policy long tail

ChangeCamp is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and governance in the age of participation?
What is ChangeCamp? It is the application of “the long tail” to public policy.
It is a long [...]

Posted 22 January 2009 | David Eaves § cool links § open source § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Communities within Slideshare

So my presentation on Community Management as a Core Competency of Open Source recently passed the 7000 views mark. I admit that I find it somewhat incredible that one can create a lecture that gets viewed this many times. But still more interesting is seeing how the content and community around Slidecast has evolved.
Presently my [...]

Posted 31 July 2008 | David Eaves § cool links § open source § technology ‡ Comments (16) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

canadian history – long live the long tail?

So I’ve just started Chris Anderson’s audiobook version of The Long Tail and am loving it. No surprise here since I’ve already heard him lecture on it and so knew what I was getting into. But what has really peaked my interest is how Canadian history – that subject that everyone thinks the public has [...]

Posted 10 August 2007 | David Eaves § reviews ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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