(In which Steve vehemently disagrees with a major thought leader on the nature of Civic Technology… .) (TLDR: Open Data is the platform. Governance participates in, contributes to, and benefits from Open Data, but government is not the platform, Open Data is the platform.) I’m sorry, Tim O’Reilly. You are a brilliant man, have some truly great ideas, and some successes I hear as a … Continue reading Government 2.0 is not the platform
Michael Byrne (@byrne_tweets), the Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been tweeting out queries like this: “@tmcw @vtcraghead @SeanGorman so if you could design an open data initiative in govt, what would you do? “ to which he has gotten everything from <140 character responses from e.g. Bill Morris of: @byrne_tweets Nationalize the high-res imaging satellites! Oh sorry – You got me … Continue reading Architecture of an Open Data Initiative, Fed Style
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