5. The original vision for Gov 2.0
Suzanne Peck (Washington DC’s CTO in 2006):
As a citizen the things I am most focused on are:
Am I getting the services I'm paying for?
Am I safe?
Are my children well-educated?
Dan Thomas (DCStat’s director in 2006):
This information has always been accessible, but it's typically been
accessible to folks who have had the time and resources to go get it.
6. Tim O’Reilly defines “Gov 2.0”
Government is, at bottom, a mechanism for
collective action. We band together, make laws, pay
taxes, and build the institutions of government to
manage problems that are too large for us
individually and whose solution is in our common
interest.
Government 2.0, then, is the use of technology—
especially the collaborative technologies at the heart
of Web 2.0—to better solve collective problems at a
city, state, national, and international level.
8. More from Vivek Kundra’s Wikipedia page
Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed him on March 27, 2007 to the cabinet
post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia.
Kundra worked on developing programs to spur open source and
crowdsourced applications using publicly accessible Web services from
the District of Columbia. Kundra established the D.C. Data Catalog, giving
the public access to more than 300 data sets held by DC's agencies.[7] He
later used that data as the source material for an initiative called Apps for
Democracy. The contest yielded 47 web, iPhone and Facebook
applications from residents in 30 days.
(Actually Suzanne Peck did, but Vivek got credit,
and a job at the White House)
9. Gov 2.0 sites
Sunlight develops and encourages new
government policies to make it more open and
transparent, facilitates searchable, sortable
and machine readable databases, builds tools
and websites to enable easy access to
information, fosters distributed research
projects as an community building
tool, engages in advocacy for 21st century laws
to require that government make data
available in real time and trains thousands of
journalists and citizens in using data and the
web to watchdog Washington.
14. Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map
The government could have said
“OK, we’re going to compile all
these statistics about who’s dying
of what, where,” but Farr had this
great idea that we’re going to make
it available to everyone because
someone maybe was going to find
something of interest.
22. The “police station effect”
Chris Anderson: “My dad regards police stations as the area of town
with the most crime. “This where you end up when they let you out of
the drunk tank.”
(In fact, of the 341 incidents within .1 mile of the new station,
315 were at the exact address. )
David French: “Crime hotspot maps in NZ flagged police stations as
crime centres because the station was the place of the crime report and
there was often no specific address associated with the crime itself. “
27. Open Government Data Principles
1. Complete
All public data is made available. Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or
privilege limitations.
2. Primary
Data is as collected at the source, with the highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or
modified forms.
3. Timely
Data is made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data.
4. Accessible
Data is available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purposes.
5. Machine processable
Data is reasonably structured to allow automated processing.
6. Non-discriminatory
Data is available to anyone, with no requirement of registration.
7. Non-proprietary
Data is available in a format over which no entity has exclusive control.
8. License-free
Data is not subject to any copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy,
security and privilege restrictions may be allowed.
28. http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html
WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
To: P.G. Innocenti/ECP, G. Kellner/ECP, D.O. Williams/CN
From: T. Berners-Lee/CN, R. Cailliau/ECP
Date: 12 November 1990
Future paths
Future developments which would further enhance the project could include:
Daemon programs which run overnight and build indexes of available information.
A server automatically providing a hypertext view of a (for example Oracle) database,
from a description of the database and a description (for example in SQL) of the view
required.
Work on efficient networking over wide areas, negotiation with other sites to provide
compatible online information.
A serious study of the use and abuse of the system, the sociology of its use at CERN.
29. A standard way to access data on the web
“OData is consistent with the way the Web works - it makes a
deep commitment to URIs for resource identification and
commits to an HTTP-based, uniform interface for interacting
with those resources (just like the Web).”
31. http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Genres(B-Horror Movies)/Titles
HTML (for people) XML (for machines)
One of many B-Horror Movies is Curse of the Voodoo
It has its own URL: odata.netflix.com/Titles(‘5vSc’)
And it has related URLs:
odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles(‘5vSc’)/Cast
odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Titles(‘5vSc’)/Directors
32. ARRA grants to Keene
funding_agency_name recipient_name award_number local_amount
FASTROADS NT10BIX5570082 $5,354,430
SOTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC EE0000161 $3,564,992
KEENE, CITY OF 33000209 $1,129,608
KEENE, CITY OF 33000209 $929,099
Scs Development Corporation M09ES330100 $909,571
SOUTHWEST REGION PLANNING COMMISSION 33-50-M09048 $811,381
SOUTHWEST REGION PLANNING COMMISSION 33-50-M09048 $477,895
Department of Justice KEENE, CITY OF 2009RKWX0608 $459,850
KEENE SCHOOL DISTRICT S389A090029 $404,757
Administration for Children and Families SOTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC 90ST0105 $225,000
VNA AT HCS, INC. NH-86-X001-02 $168,887
SOTHWESTERN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC S09DY330001 $109,502
Department of Justice CHESHIRE COUNTY 2009-SB-B9-2958 $79,684
KEENE, CITY OF 2009-SB-B9-2958 $61,400
CHESHIRE COUNTY 2009-SU-B9-0019 $51,486
CHESHIRE COUNTY 2009-EF-S6-0019 $50,000
CHESTERFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT S389A090029 $32,117
MARLBOROUGH TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT S389A090029 $29,559
MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES INC 2009-EF-S6-0019 $26,100
Monadnock Developmental Services, Inc. GJ-20054-10-60-A-33 $20,000
Source: Recovery.gov (http://recovery.download.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Y12Q1/NH_Y12Q1.xlsx.zip
34. EE0000161
Project Title ARRA Weatherization Assistance Program
Project Status More than 50% Completed
Final Project Report Submitted No
Administration of General Economic
Project Activities Description
Programs
ARRA Weatherization had been occurring at
top production levels, but is expected to
slow down in the next quarters due to
some agencies (three of six) depleting or
nearly depleting their ARRA funds. SERC
Grant activities: Agencies have continued
Quarterly Activities/Project Description production with SERC weatherization
money, with over 288 units completed by
March 31st. Installed measures include
solar PV, high-efficiency washing machines,
solar thermal space heating, and high-
efficiency heating systems. All agencies are
near completion of spending SERC funds.
Jobs Created 58.50
45. Rindge calendars available for syndication
feed events
Chamber of Commerce 14
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District 1
JP Stephen's (facebook) 0
Mass Audubon: Wildwood Camp 12
Town of Rindge (facebook) 0
Rindge calendars stuck in siloes
Town of Rindge Community http://www.town.rindge.nh.us/CommunityCalendar.cfm
Recreation http://www.town.rindge.nh.us/Recreaction_Calendar.cfm
Library http://www.town.rindge.nh.us/Library_Events.cfm
Franklin Pierce Community http://franklinpierce.hosted.webevent.com/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal5
Athletics http://franklinpierce.hosted.webevent.com/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal2
Cathedral of the Pines http://www.cathedralofthepines.org/events/
First Congregational Churgh http://www.rindgeucc.org/calendar/june2012.html
Heritage Christian School http://hcsnh2.sharepoint.com/Pages/calendar.aspx
Summerhill Assisted Living http://www.summerhillal.com/event-calendar.html
Woodmore Campground http://www.woodmorecampground.com/schedule.html
Woodbound Inn http://www.woodbound.com/special-events
46. A workshop on community calendars
Invited attendees: Leaders from key
local organizations including: the public
schools, the colleges, the city
government, the newspaper, the public
library, the hospital, the chamber of
commerce, the downtown merchants
association, the arts/culture nonprofits,
the sports leagues, social services, local
agriculture.
Note: The seminar involves
technical subject matter but the
invited attendees are explicitly /not/
IT staffers from these organizations.
The ideas and methods we will
explain and demonstrate are simple
enough for anyone to understand
and apply, and we especially want
organizational leaders to know that.
47. Seminar and workshop overview
Presentation (1 hour)
We ask and answer these questions:
• How can we, as a community, most effectively inform one another about goings-on in the region?
• How can our collective information management skills improve quality of life in the region?
• How can they also help us attract tourism and talent from outside the region?
• How do these same skills apply in other domains of public life such as political discourse and
education?
Workshop (1 hour)
In the second hour of demonstration we show how organizations not yet sharing calendars online can
easily do so. Among the skills you will learn and perspectives you'll acquire:
• Why and how to use "cloud-based" services like Google Calendar and Hotmail Calendar
• Why some kinds of online information remain stuck in "siloes" while other kinds can flow through
networks
• How to publish information online in ways that maximize its utility and reach
• How this approach puts you in control of the information you publish and why that matters.
49. More info
http://jonudell.net, jonu@microsoft.com
Blog: http://blog.jonudell.net
Calendar syndication project: http://elmcity.cloudapp.net
Column at wired.com: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/tag/the-personal-cloud/
Presentations (including this one): http://www.slideshare.net/judell