Gov 2.0 Expo 2010
who it's for
government IT managers, open data program managers, civic technologists, public sector developers, policy makers, emergency management officials, nonprofit civic advocates
topics
cloud computing for government; government as a platform; short .gov URL service; open linked data publishing; civic engagement platforms; first responder communities of practice; legal aid document automation; geospatial mapping for government; crowdsourced apps and contests; procurement and acquisition reform; security risks of open data; real-time data publishing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Next Frontier: Embracing the Cloud | Linda Cureton | 09m |
NASA implements a cloud instantiation at Ames and plans extension to Goddard to let engineers run early R&D models in smaller, cheaper environments instead of… | ||
| Government as a Platform for Greatness | Tim O'Reilly | 12m |
Argues that government must become an interoperable platform, not a vending machine, citing concrete moves: data.gov as a platform that exposes weather and… | ||
| Apps for the Army | Jeffrey A Sorenson | 10m |
Army runs an internal app competition using RACE at DISA to let soldiers and civilians build deployable tools, aiming to create a standardized operating… | ||
| Vote on the Web: Transparency and Civic Engagement... | Andre Blas | 06m |
Launched November 2009, Vote on the Web converts cryptic congressional bills into one-line summaries and lets registered users cast symbolic yes/no votes, post… | ||
| Graffiti Tracker: Utilizing Data to Fight Crime | Timothy Kephart | 05m |
Graffiti Tracker builds a database that documents, maps and analyzes graffiti so cities move from paint-over to graffiti mapping and analytics. The system… | ||
| Opening the Courts - Using Technology to Empower... | Kate Bladow | 05m |
Courts and legal aid programs are publishing LawHelp Interactive interviews built with HotDocs Professional and A2J Author to generate court forms, reduce… | ||
| Go.USA.gov: Create short .gov URLs | Michelle Chronister | 05m |
go.usa.gov creates short official .gov links, tracks clicks in real time, and enforces permanent uneditable destinations so shortened links always point to the… | ||
| Technology is a Prism Held Up to the Imagination: A Vision... | Rita King | 05m |
Love Land is a micro-ownership experiment that sells parcels as single square inch units and already links over 600 people into a shared Detroit site. A mapped… | ||
| Instituting a Culture of AWESOME in Government: ... | Christopher Dufour | 05m |
Case study of an IED task force tech team (2003–2006) that practices rapid procurement—buying a South African countermine vehicle and shipping off‑label tech… | ||
| If You Can't Control the Data, Consider the Message | Elizabeth Losh | 05m |
Argues a concrete thesis: regulation and content creation clash so agencies panic over digital files that reach unintended audiences. Cites a deleted tweet… | ||
| First Responder Communities of Practice | Jose Vazquez | 05m |
An online portal called firstresponder.gov launches communities of practice (live since January) with both open and restricted groups, 27 topic communities and… | ||
| Accepting the Mission for Greatness | Bill Eggers | 11m |
Study of more than 75 major government initiatives using over 70 grad students maps a repeatable “journey to success” with a clear claim: Gov 2.0 tools cut… | ||
| Sunlight Foundation Contest Winners | Clay Johnson | 10m |
Sunlight Foundation runs a design contest that awards eight $5,000 winners for concrete, built projects: an IRS redesign that merges state and federal data to… | ||
| 15-second Case Studies in Open Government Data | Daniel O'Neil | 05m |
EveryBlock aggregates address‑level local news and public records—property transfers, restaurant inspections, foreclosures—and actually pulls building permit… | ||
| Crisis Communication 2.0: Real-time Civilian Protection | Zubin Wadia | 05m |
CiviGuard claims a live civilian emergency platform launched May 2010 (development from Sept 2009) that delivers location-aware, contextual, real-time alerts… | ||
| discussion | Tim O'Reilly, Aneesh Chopra | 15m |
Government shifts from apps to platforms for reuse, promising over $2 billion in incentives to hospitals to adopt IT and require patients get an electronic… | ||
| Cloud Computing Services:... | Tim O'Reilly, Dave Girouard, Randi Levin | 16m |
City of Los Angeles moves email and calendaring from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps to save $5 million in cash over three to five years, cut data center risk… | ||
| New Opportunities and Responsibilities in the Cloud | Brad Smith | 14m |
Cloud adoption is accelerating with concrete outcomes: the City of Miami moves its 3-1-1 system onto Windows Azure handling ~4,000 reports a day and deploys… | ||
| Unlocking Real-Time Data | Joshua Robin | 05m |
Massachusetts DOT opens basic trip data Sept 2009 and then a real-time feed for five bus routes at a November developers conference and within one hour a… | ||
| discussion with Alex Howard | Tim Berners-Lee, Alex Howard | 16m |
Argues that governments should publish taxpayer-funded records online, citing the UK launch of data.gov.uk after a 2009 push and a community of 2,500… | ||
| chat | Gary Vaynerchuk, Kathy Sierra | 13m |
Explains walking away from Twitter after building 18,000 followers, and even a canceled Facebook account, because social media becomes a distraction; removes… | ||
| The Path to Open Government: The Pillars of Gov 2.0 | Kate Lundy | 11m |
Argues Gov 2.0 rests on three concrete pillars: democratizing data, citizen-centric services, participatory democracy. Gives specific policies and tools: a… | ||
| Open, Linked Data for a Global Community | Tim Berners-Lee | 10m |
Gives the concrete five-star open-data scheme: put data online (1), make it machine-readable (2), use CSV = 3 stars, publish entities and properties as HTTP… | ||
| Creating Passionate Citizens | Kathy Sierra | 14m |
Argues that passion comes from making people better at something — not better products — so design to create a killer user and deliver higher resolution… | ||
| The Democratization of Content | Gary Vaynerchuk | 10m |
Built a video show called Wine Library TV starting in 2006 and uses simple on-camera wine reviews plus web distribution to turn a small store into a national… | ||
| interview with Carolyn Lawson | Alex Howard, Carolyn Lawson | 13m |
California says its Web Master User Group grows to about 500 members with 100 active each month and a demo widget drives 2 million impressions in two months… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Andrew Hoppin | Andrew Hoppin | 08m |
Built a public site on Drupal CMS so hundreds of internal content creators can publish directly, claiming faster development and lower total cost of ownership… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Jack Dangermond | Jack Dangermond | 15m |
GIS moves from desktop to the web and promises Recovery.gov map style delivery that turns datasets into interactive map services anyone can view in a browser… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Michael Edson | Michael Edson | 07m |
Describes the Smithsonian shifting policy to treat digitization as core mission, citing 137 million objects with only a small fraction digitized and a push to… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Pat McCormick | Pat McCormick | 08m |
Manager, Digital Engagement runs a business transformation program that publishes policy work on open data (a recent parliamentary inquiry and positive… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Daniel O'Neil | Daniel O'Neil | 07m |
EveryBlock aggregates local public records and media into address-based feeds across 15 cities, with about 70% government-sourced pages coming from CAD… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Jesse Robbins | Jesse Robbins | 07m |
Recovery.gov moves to the cloud and shows cloud wins for very spiky public sites, with economics and scalability matching enterprise needs while regulatory… | ||
| Connecting with Communities | danah boyd | 14m |
Argues that transparency alone backfires: 700,000 on registry shows public sex‑offender lists include many teens and non‑violent cases, and the one in seven… | ||
| Open Data, Baseball and Government | David Eaves | 06m |
Argues that open data is historical, not new, and gives concrete outcomes: launching Data do. G.C after the federal portal failed, creating Vancouver’s Open… | ||
| in discussion with Alex Howard | Todd Park, Alex Howard | 11m |
Joined HHS in August to run internal innovation projects that actually ship: builds a NIN Direct lightweight on‑ramp to connect small providers to the… | ||
| Law.Gov: America's Operating System, Open Source | Carl Malamud | 09m |
Proposes law.gov as a distributed authenticated registry and repository for all primary legal materials providing reliable bulk access to statutes opinions and… | ||
| GeoEnabling Gov 2.0 | Jack Dangermond | 12m |
Claims that a cloud GIS organizes tens of thousands of servers into an open, standards-based network and exposes maps, data and models via REST endpoints so… | ||
| An App We Can Trust: Lessons Learned in Post-Katrina New Orleans | Denice Ross | 05m |
After Katrina census data become obsolete so the team adopts postal address pickup data from a donated Valassis database, builds a web app with clear metadata… | ||
| Advancing the Future of America's Heritage... | Jefferey Guin | 05m |
Over three years a small national preservation office builds community sites and trains staff to use social media, launches a collaborative multimedia site… | ||
| Building Trust and Partnerships in Horn of Africa:... | Scott McIlnay | 03m |
A five-person Maritime Civil Affairs team deploys for six months to Djibouti, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya and uses a Facebook page originally meant for… | ||
| Healthcare Needs a Redesign | Jay Parkinson | 10m |
Argues that quality healthcare equals designed healthcare and outlines concrete tools: a community-mapping triage tool that tells who to see, when, and typical… | ||
| How Open Data Can Improve America's Health | Todd Park | 10m |
HHS publishes machine‑readable community health datasets (smoking and obesity rates, liquor stores per 10,000, Medicare/FDA/CDC vault data) and convenes a… | ||
| Smarter and Better Acquisition | Mary Davie | 10m |
The Better Buy project aims to simplify how the government spends about $530 billion a year by connecting a volunteer network of roughly 500 people across… | ||
| Innovation and Participation: Embracing the Civic Web | Anil Dash | 12m |
Expert Labs builds an open source ThinkTank platform (led by Gina Trapani) that aggregates social networks so officials and citizens can crowdsource policy… | ||
| Participation and Innovation in America | Sonal Shah | 23m |
Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation pushes three levers: new financing (Social Innovation Fund at Education and CNCS) to provide scale capital… | ||
| Using Social Media as a Strategic Communication Tool | Price Floyd | 16m |
Department of Defense changes policy from blocking social sites to open access and builds a field-run public site for the NATO Training Mission that costs $50… | ||
| Global Engagement Starts at Home | Alec Ross | 15m |
Describes concrete government projects that use mobile and social tech: a text-to-donate 90999 campaign that mobilizes over 3 million Americans and raises more… | ||
| Spear Phishing the Masses: When Open Data is Dark | Jeff Jonas | 07m |
Argues that real-time context stitching of public records, blogs, forum posts and duplicate identifiers lets attackers assemble tailored lures automatically —… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Paul Norcini | Paul Norcini | 06m |
MarkLogic sells an XML database and search engine that ingests Office/PDF/web content by converting to XML, indexes it and serves apps; customers include… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Shawna Pandya | Shawna Pandya | 08m |
CiviGuard builds an emergency-communications platform that sends location-specific actionable messages and step-by-step evacuation guidance instead of blanket… | ||
| Interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Nicholas Gruen | Nicholas Gruen | 07m |
Recommends giving public servants explicit permission to experiment with social media and web‑2 tools, and making a liberal Creative Commons BY the default for… | ||
| You've Been Scienced: Communicating Military Science... | John Ohab | 05m |
Department of Defense launches Armed with Science in January 2009 and runs a weekly Blog Talk Radio webcast plus a Twitter account and blog to demystify… | ||
| Using Web 2.0 Tools to Engage Students in Health Discussions | Virginia Hill | 05m |
An annual online program called Drug Fact Chat Day connects teens with addiction scientists from the National Institute on Drug Abuse via a custom Q&A system… | ||
| Interviews Randi Levin | Tim O'Reilly, Randi Levin | 09m |
Los Angeles migrated core services to cloud for cost savings and pursues concrete code‑sharing with other cities, already talking to San Francisco, San Diego… | ||
| interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Jeffrey Carr | Jeffrey Carr | 10m |
Government agencies are treated as targets by state and criminal actors who prefer quiet, persistent theft of intellectual property and finances rather than… | ||
| interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Heather West | Heather West | 08m |
Conference coverage argues that releasing raw data is insufficient and that practical tech-government collaboration is what scales solutions. Key specifics… | ||
| interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Carl Malamud | Carl Malamud | 06m |
Public.Resource.Org pushes law.gov to require bulk and authenticated access to primary legal materials so statutes, court opinions and regulations are… | ||
| interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Mary Davie | Mary Davie | 10m |
Office overseeing $4B in IT and services experiments with procurement 2.0 by running a UserVoice platform with about 140 ideas and thousands of visits, hosting… | ||
| interviewed at Gov 2.0 – Kate Lundy | Kate Lundy | 11m |
Two recent laws create an Information Commissioner role and change Freedom of Information so the government defaults to release public data online unless… | ||
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