by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 8 September 2010
Civic Commons, a new project launched at the Gov 2.0 Summit, will help city governments reduce costs and inefficiencies by sharing the software they develop.
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Commentary: "Beltway bandits" are the result of government complexity.
by Jim Stogdill
| @jstogdill
| 8 September 2010
In this response to Carl Malamud's Gov 2.0 Summit speech, Jim Stogdill says that demonizing the "beltway bandits" without addressing the root cause -- the lock-in incentives inherent in a single-customer market -- will just lead to new ways to lock them in. Fixing government IT means fixing incentives and making the cognitive leap to intentional emergence.
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Padmasree Warrior on the tools and technology governments should harness.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 6 September 2010
In this wide-ranging interview, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior weighs in on smart cities, how the signal-to-noise ratio of social media can be managed, and why open government -- if done right -- can improve the speed and quality of decisions.
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Harlan Yu on how "privacy by obscurity" in court records is changing.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 6 September 2010
An interview with Princeton computer scientist Harlan Yu is a reminder that the state of open government in the U.S. court system is both further advanced and more muddled than the public realizes.
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FCC managing director Steven VanRoekel on participation and building platforms.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 2 September 2010
The Federal Communications Commission is prepping a significant reboot of its website. In this interview, FCC managing director Steven VanRoekel explains how citizen participation and open government are shaping the new FCC.gov.
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Professor Andrew McAfee on the potential of social software for government
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 27 August 2010
In this podcast, MIT professor Andrew McAfee applies the insights from his research into the use of social software in the enterprise to understanding how and where technology will change government.
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