Gov 2.0 Summit 2010
who it's for
policymakers and regulators, civic technologists, government IT managers, product managers in government, data scientists and analysts, startup founders and entrepreneurs, cybersecurity professionals
topics
challenge.gov style challenge platforms; open transit APIs and developer centers; data.gov dataset publication practices; cloud computing for government services; federal financial management modernization; XBRL integration with NIEM; privacy and cookie policy for analytics; national cybersecurity policy and US Cyber Command; payments and mobile wallet use in government; legacy ERP modernization and government as platform
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Government Challenges. Your Solutions. | Bev Godwin | 07m |
Launches a government challenge platform called challenge.gov that goes live with 36 challenges from 16 departments across 20 agencies, search by… | ||
| Open Government Scorecard | Ellen Miller | 10m |
Claims the open-data push has stalled: agency plans are mostly aspirational, with 12 of 30 agencies listed no data for future publication and only 75 new data… | ||
| U.S. Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy... | General (Ret.) Keith Alexander | 11m |
Cyberspace holds national wealth and is under active attack: about 247 billion emails per day with 250,000 probes per hour against DoD networks. The government… | ||
| PayPal: What We Do with Private... | Osama Bedier | 17m |
PayPal states concrete scale: 225 million accounts, roughly $140 billion processed over 10 years (about 60% of e‑commerce seen), and over a billion credit… | ||
| The Currents of Our Time | Carl Malamud | 18m |
Federal IT wastes billions and specific projects show how. National Archives' ERA costs reach $250 million spent on ERA with what looks like a 100 TB ingestion… | ||
| Reimagining... | Julius Genachowski, Steven VanRoekel | 18m |
FCC launches concrete tools and numbers: over 650,000 people connected via social sites, 60 workshops with over 50,000 participants, and more than 45,000… | ||
| Opening Welcome | Tim O'Reilly | 12m |
Argues that government as a platform works: publish open transit data and within hours developers build iPhone apps, LED signs and SMS services that show bus… | ||
| Aneesh Chopra interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Aneesh Chopra | 24m |
The administration launches challenge.gov using off‑the‑shelf ChallengePost via apps.gov, listing 36 challenges from 16 agencies to seed participatory… | ||
| Brad Feld interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Brad Feld | 12m |
Early-stage software and internet startups rebound since the mid‑2000s and scale far faster than typical small businesses (a few founders to ~1,000 employees… | ||
| Ellen Miller interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Ellen Miller | 17m |
Says the open‑government push inspired but underdelivers: agencies resist publishing raw machine‑readable data, enforcement is weak, and some released feeds… | ||
| John Seely Brown interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | John Seely Brown | 13m |
Argues that decades‑old ERP code—often 40‑year legacy systems—locks government into push‑models and blocks radical change, and proposes treating government as… | ||
| Jules Polonetsky interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Jules Polonetsky | 19m |
Explains how OMB cookie policy flips from no permanent cookies without approval to ad-hoc use, and how that breaks analytics and opt-outs in practice; cites… | ||
| Mark Bolgiano interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Mark Bolgiano | 13m |
Claims that XBRL is now SEC-mandated and crowd-sourced to a 15,000-element taxonomy for GAAP, already flowing on EDGAR; partnerships with DTCC and SWIFT… | ||
| The Singapore Miracle and Gov 2.0 | Peter Ho, Peter Schwartz | 30m |
Claims that governance must shift from a rigid, compliance-driven model to an adaptive, networked Gov 2.0 and cites concrete tools and results: GDP up from… | ||
| "Big Data" and Analytics in Government | David McQueeney | 14m |
Government holds massive structured and unstructured stores and the computational know-how via DOE/NSF procurement patterns to catalyze industry builds, then… | ||
| Building a "Holy Cow Machine" for Healthcare | Todd Park | 16m |
HHS turns sealed datasets into usable downloads and developer challenges: the Community Health Data initiative posts open hospital, nursing home and dialysis… | ||
| The Future of the Government Platform | Clay Johnson | 13m |
Announces a government cloud strategy, an upcoming IaaS contract and an email SaaS RFI, and says recovery.gov and data.gov already move to cloud while platform… | ||
| Stability Out of Chaos from Information Sharing | Michele Weslander Quaid | 06m |
An experimental program called Unity Net tests the claim that removing internet barriers lets Afghan civilians and partners share population‑centric data and… | ||
| Improving Customer Service | Peter Levin, Thor Muller | 14m |
Government launches eBenefits portal that lets veterans see claim status, shows exactly what VA is waiting on, and reduces the need for phone or office visits… | ||
| Redefining Public/Private Partnerships | Nicholas Gruen | 15m |
Argues the textbook public‑good definition is misleading and that Web‑platforms are emergent public goods that governments can scaffold. Estimates a twitter… | ||
| The Recovery: Government as Platform | Frank DiGiammarino | 08m |
Claims that Recovery Act investments build reusable platforms: roughly $100 billion mobilizes private capital at about $3 for every $1 of government, e.g., $4B… | ||
| The Recovery Board's Approach... | Douglas Hassebrock, Alex Fishman | 12m |
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and Palantir deploy an analytics platform across roughly $800B in Recovery Act spending to screen all… | ||
| Barriers to Social Media Use by Congress | Marci Harris | 05m |
Congressional social media uptake shows lots of accounts but little constituent engagement and frequent partisan or staff-driven posts, with examples like… | ||
| Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools... | Andrew McAfee | 16m |
Argues that social tools shift power from managers imposing processes to empowering rank‑and‑file contributions, showing concrete patterns: Wikipedia‑style… | ||
| Government Data and the Invisible Hand | Harlan Yu | 09m |
Argues government should stop building bespoke citizen websites and instead publish raw data sets under the eight open-data principles so others can innovate… | ||
| Why EMR's Will Transform Healthcare | Jim Traficant | 10m |
A transplant patient constructs an algorithm from bloodwork that predicts rejection and avoids repeat hospitalization, illustrating that data, not intuition… | ||
| XBRL in the Federal NIEM Framework | Mark Bolgiano, Donna Roy | 15m |
XBRL is a 15,000-element financial XML used by the SEC and FDIC to automate filings; about 20% of U.S. assets—$35 trillion of an estimated $180 trillion report… | ||
| Next Generation Models for Education | Jim Shelton | 10m |
Argues the U.S. must shift to individualized, data-driven schooling, citing 1.3 million dropouts a year and ~50% of graduates unready for college; claims… | ||
| The Startup Visa: Why We Need More Immigrant Entrepreneurs | Brad Feld | 10m |
A grassroots effort called Startup Visa builds a legislative pathway using an EB-5 repurposed for entrepreneurs rather than creating a new visa allocation… | ||
| Increasing Innovation by Speeding Up SBIR and SBIC | Sean Greene | 11m |
Argues that speed drives impact and gives concrete results: a fast-track program cuts SBIC licensing for returning funds from 15 months to 2 months and overall… | ||
| The Power of Pull | John Seely Brown | 16m |
Argues that education must move from a push model to a pull platform that lets learners and communities assemble resources on demand, citing app-store scale… | ||
| A Smart Grid for Education | Dale Dougherty | 12m |
Sketches a "smart grid for education" that maps local workshops (robotics, poetry, composting, First Robotics, Girl Scouts) into a discoverable flow using an… | ||
| TED: The First 21st Century University? | June Cohen | 20m |
TED puts video online for free in 2006 and watches it scale: 700 talks online, 300 million views, conference fees rise 50% to $6,000 and sell out with a… | ||
| Closing the Technology Gap | Aneesh Chopra, Vivek Kundra | 23m |
Promises to free 500 megahertz of spectrum over 10 years using auctions, shared-spectrum tech and unlicensed access; reports NSF-funded Eucalyptus and Nebula… | ||
| Learning Powered by Technology | Karen Cator | 11m |
A federal plan lays out five pillars — learning, teaching, assessment, infrastructure, productivity — to move US college attainment from ~39% toward 60%… | ||
| David Eaves interview at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | David Eaves | 11m |
Canada has municipal momentum—Vancouver and Edmonton leading—while provinces research open data and the federal level is still early and controlling. Cloud… | ||
| Stacy Donohue interview at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Stacy Donohue | 09m |
Omidyar Network funds concrete projects: Code for America places fellows in five cities building city apps and tracks growth in participating cities; Sunlight… | ||
| A Conversation with Padmasree Warrior | Padmasree Warrior | 22m |
Cisco argues the Internet shifts from connectivity to a platform for industry, pushing an industrial internet of sensors, smart grids and city services… | ||
| A Conversation with California Secretary of State... | Debra Bowen | 23m |
Describes starting a pre-web public access bill that moves committee analyses and voting records from paywalled dial‑in to a public network, pilots an… | ||
| Why We Need Open Source Electronic ... | Bryan Sivak | 09m |
An open source platform called the TrustTheVote project builds end-to-end election software with open data standards, a nine-person core team and nine… | ||
| Clare Lockhart interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Clare Lockhart | 11m |
Argues that building blocks of accountable states are concrete: a trust fund with audited flow channels donor and revenue money straight to village bank… | ||
| Debra Bowen interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Debra Bowen | 10m |
Commissioned review finds voting software coded without security in mind and reliant on security by obscurity, with machines circulating outside vendor control… | ||
| Jack Dangermond interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Jack Dangermond | 16m |
ESRI opens most core software to nonprofits while charging governments and businesses, offering tools to 5,000 NGOs when there are ~1,000,000 worldwide and… | ||
| Making States Work Better | Ory Okolloh, Clare Lockhart, Steve Killelea | 17m |
A data product called Global Peace Index maps peacefulness and finds peace rises with well functioning government, strong business environment, equitable… | ||
| The Civic Commons: Code Sharing Between Cities | Bryan Sivak | 13m |
Cities share runnable code and docs via a new Civic Commons repository that already hosts the Federal IT Dashboard code, Open311 API, a geocoder and TrackDC… | ||
| Turbocharging... | Tim O'Reilly, Thomas Kalil, Lesa Mitchell | 15m |
Proposes make R&D tax credit permanent and simpler to claim, plus directed federal bets on robotics, nano‑electronics (graphene, spintronics) and materials… | ||
| Empowerment and Innovation - A New... | Walton Smith | 09m |
Claim: building platforms is easy but driving use is the bottleneck, with 80% of needed data already trapped in PeopleSoft SharePoint Outlook and institutional… | ||
| How Open Data is Making ... | David Eaves | 06m |
City IT launches a beta open data portal in three months and coders immediately build vantrash.ca, which exports personal pickup calendars to iPhone/Outlook… | ||
| One Step, Many Feet: How Technology... | Stacy Donohue | 06m |
Argues that cheap tech turns single acts into large civic change, citing actual tools and pilots: crowdsourced crisis mapping via Ushahidi, volunteer… | ||
| Gov 2.0, Federal Use of Social Media and the Law | Elizabeth Hochberg | 14m |
GSA runs 8,500 buildings, 300,000 vehicles and manages about $60 billion in annual spending while facing old laws like the 1840 Appropriations and the… | ||
| Brightscope: Data Fuels the Innovation Economy | Mike Alfred | 05m |
Company builds a database of 401(k) fund lineups by extracting decades of audit reports from the Department of Labor, parsing free‑text forms (paid 5¢ a page)… | ||
| The Learning Registry... | Steve Midgley | 05m |
Google says federal learning resources are hard to find, so the project builds a sharing API — the Learning Registry — that publishes metadata so federal and… | ||
| The Need for Enterprise 2.0 in the Military | Blake Hall | 06m |
TroopSwap.com is a functioning Craigslist for the military aiming to democratize battlefield information that currently flows one way up a battalion of ~700… | ||
| Creating Passionate Citizens | Kathy Sierra | 19m |
Argues that passion is engineered by helping people get measurably better at something, not by dumping open data or more tweets; tests include apps and… | ||
| Cities of Innovation, Cities of Service | Judith Rodin | 09m |
Describes turning institutions and foundations into hands-on urban partners: acquiring and rehabbing dozens of abandoned homes in West Philly, funding Public… | ||
| Building Curriculum Around Real World Problems | Elizabeth Coleman | 14m |
Argues that curriculum must reorient from careerism to preparing citizens to tackle concrete public problems, claiming elite institutions currently get an F… | ||
| Pillbox: Community and Developer Partnering to Restructure... | David Hale | 05m |
Pillbox restructures FDA drug label XML (the full set is >1 GB; individual labels run 2–4,000 lines) by matching FDA data with NLM records, producing a public… | ||
| Ten Ways to Change The World | Beth Noveck, Andrew McLaughlin | 14m |
Lists eleven concrete levers — from executive memoranda and orders to events, convenings, public‑private collaborations and interagency committees — and gives… | ||
| Cloud Computing: Lowering the Barrier to Innovation | C.J.Moses | 06m |
Cloud reduces up-front IT costs and approval delays by offering pay-as-you-go utility pricing so projects can start without lengthy OMB-style budgets… | ||
| Crisis Collaboration and Innovation in Haiti | Luke Beckman | 09m |
After the January 12 Haiti quake an ad hoc information system centered on project 4636 and SMS channels processes thousands of texts: 43 international USAR… | ||
| Rethinking Air Traffic Management | James T Barry | 11m |
JFK shuts one long runway for four months and PASSUR combines government feeds with passive radar plus ADS‑B and TCAS feeds to build a live, historical… | ||
| Deep Dive: Identity, Privacy, and Informed Consent in the... | Tim O'Reilly | 04m |
Argues that mistakes like Facebook changing privacy settings or Google capturing Wi‑Fi packets are inevitable as new data tools roll out, and that mobile… | ||
| The Future of Privacy | Jules Polonetsky | 11m |
Argues for treating privacy as responsible data use rather than secrecy and shows concrete moves: surface personalized features, display profiles and show… | ||
| Future Shock: Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Policy | Dan Reed | 10m |
Claim: cognitive radio plus a white spaces database lets devices query location and nearby transmitters to use underutilized bands dynamically, enabling… | ||
| Cloud Changes Everything | Steve Herrod | 15m |
VMware champions virtualization as the substrate for cloud portability, working with salesforce.com and google to run identical apps across public clouds or… | ||
| A New Spirit of Public Service | Jennifer Pahlka | 08m |
Service-year program for technologists selects five cities (Boston, Boulder, Philly, DC, Seattle), recruits 362 applicants and hires 23 fellows who relocate to… | ||
| Is it Possible to Share and Protect Sensitive Information? | John Clippinger | 16m |
Panel argues the privacy model must shift from locking data to enabling user-controlled sharing with interoperable permissions, citing consumer research (NAI)… | ||
| Open Data and the Future of ... | Jack Dangermond, Bernard Szukalski | 12m |
ESRI describes a stitched world topographic basemap built from USGS, EPA, park service and local government inputs and served as multi‑resolution tiles used by… | ||
| The Future of Federal Financial Management Systems | James Taylor | 10m |
Department of Labor replaces a 20‑year‑old batch financial system with a shared services provider deployment (partner named as GCE) built in 18 months and… | ||
| Open Government, Idea Generation, ... | John Porcari | 11m |
Department of Transportation describes concrete open-government tools and early results: a mapping portal Visual DOT launching next year to turn datasets into… | ||
| Michele Weslander Quaid interviewed at Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 | Michele Weslander Quaid | 09m |
UnityNet aims to bring sustainable internet access to Afghan regions using low-cost hardware and open source tools so locals can collaborate offline and sync… | ||
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