RoundUp of Gov 2.0 Summit Coverage
Yesterday and today O’Reilly Media and TechWeb are hosting the Gov 2.0 Summit. Much of chatter on Twitter has referenced geo. Here’s a roundup of coverage.
Follow the event on Twitter using #g2s (search that hash tag)
The Wall Street Journal has a short profile of Dangermond’s take on Gov 2.0.
Good reports on the Civics Lessons for and from Silicon Valley.
Government Technology crows: “GIS the Big Winner in Push for Open Government.”
NextGov, a sponsor, covers some of yesterday’s speakers including Jack Dangermond.
Government Computer News covered Dangermond’s talk, discussion of Virtual USA (built off the ideas of Virtual Alabama) and comment from FortiusOne’s Andrew Turner in an article titled: Geospatial tools offer killer app for Gov 2.0. Turner added a new stat to our repitoire: “that about 74 percent of government services for citizens are tied to specific locations involving geospatial information.”
InformationWeek provides a status report on the U.S. government’s recent work in “Gov 2.0: Obama Team Details ‘Open Government’ Progress.” The publication addresses CTO Chopra and OMB’s soon to be releasedOpen Government Directive in this article.
This blog post from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media (no, I didn’t know they had one of those!) notes Mikel Maron’s work on OpenStreetMap coverage of Gaza.
Not sure this is related, but it happened during the event: DC launched its own AppStore. Most of the apps are geo-based.
Here’s a 2 minute video that sums up O’Reilly’s vision.
