International Open Data Day – An Update
(Can’t read the whole post? Important stuff is highlighted in grey below.) Two years ago, I met some open data advocates from Brazil and Ottawa, and we schemed of doing…
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Ontario’s Open Data Policy: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and the (Missed?) Opportunity
Yesterday the province of Ontario launched its Open Data portal. This is great news and is the culmination of a lot of work by a number of good people. The…
The UK’s Digital Government Strategy – Worth a Peek
I’ve got a piece up on TechPresident about the UK Government’s Digital Strategy which was released today. The strategy (and my piece!) are worth checking out. They are saying a…
The Power of Weakness and the World’s Relationship with America
This past week, I had the enormous privilege of being invited to Washington, DC to attend the Academy of Achievement summit. This event – of which I knew nothing before…
Visualizing Open Energy Data in Canada
If you haven’t seen it yet, Glen Newton has done some really awesome visualizations of Canada’s energy production/consumption data. Here’s a version I “edited”: What is cool is that, what…
Doing Government Websites Right
Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website – Gov.uk – does a lot of things right. I’d love to see more…
Playing with Budget Cutbacks: On a Government 2.0 Response, Wikileaks & Analog Denial of Service Attacks
Reflecting on yesterday’s case study in broken government I had a couple of addition thoughts that I thought fun to explore and that simply did not make sense including in…
Broken Government: A Case Study in Penny Wise but Pound Foolish Management
Often I write about the opportunities of government 2.0, but it is important for readers to be reminded of just how challenging the world of government 1.0 can be, and…
Bridge to Somewhere: Open Data in Public Policy
Yikes, two days in a row! I’ve got a piece on open data up on Tech President… If you haven’t had the chance, check out saveourbridges.com. It’s a simple but…
The OGP at Year One: Off the Ground – So Where Next?
I’ve got a post up at Tech President assessing the accomplishments and challenges facing the Open Government Partnership on its first year of operations…
There is so much joy in what we do
Hello blog. I know it has been a a week since I posted. I want to apologize and explain it is not out of a lack of love, just a…
What the Quantified Self Movement Says and Tech and Gender
Over the past year or two I’ve been to a couple of unconferences sessions about how people are increasingly measuring different parts of their lives: how far they run, how…
Requiring Facebook for Your News Site (or website) – the Missed Opportunity
Last week I published I blog post titled Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society in reaction to the fact that PostMedia’s newspapers( including the…
On Being Misquoted – Access Info Europe and Freedominfo.org
I’ve just been alerted to a new post out on Freedominfo.org has quotes of mine that are used in way that is deeply disappointing. It’s never fund to see your…
Why Banning Anonymous Comments is Bad for Postmedia and Bad for Society
Last night I discovered that my local newspaper – the Vancouver Sun – was going to require users log in with Facebook to comment. It turns out that this will…
Is the Internet bringing us together or is it tearing us apart?
The other day the Vancouver Sun – via Simon Fraser University’s Public Square program – asked me to pen a piece answering the questions: Is the Internet bringing us together…
Lies, Damned Lies, and Open Data
I have an article titles Lies, Damn Lies and Open Data in Slate Magazine as part of their Future Tense series. Here, for me, is the core point: On the…
Fall 2012 – Some Fun Updates
Hi friends – am super excited about a number of upcoming events I’ve been asked to participate in this fall. All this means I’ll be in Charlotte, Boston and Washington…
Community Managers: Expectations, Experience and Culture Matter
Here’s an awesome link to grind home my point from my OSCON keynote on Community Management, particularly the part where I spoke about the importance of managing wait times –…
Re-Architecting the City by Changing the Timelines and Making it Disappear
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by one of the city’s near me to sit on an advisory board around the creation of their Digital Government strategy. For…