As many readers know, Vancouver passed what has locally been termed the Open3 motion a year ago and has had a open data portal up and running for several months. Around the world much of the focus of open data initiatives have focused on the development of applications like Vancouver’s Vantrash, Washington DC’s Stumble Safely [...]
Entries tagged as “the long tail”
Open Data: An Example of the Long Tail of Public Policy at Work
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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