I gave a webinar today called, “Beyond Fairy Dust & The No Police: How Cloud Computing Makes Government Better“. Below is the “virtual handout” for the webinar, which lists recent activity both in the government cloud world as well as the platform-as-a-service world. A recording is archived here. Enjoy! Suggested Gov Cloud Reading Extreme Heroku: […]
Open Data: Stupid Politics, Smart Pragma
I really enjoyed having a quick lunch with some of my co-presenters after our lightning talks over the past weekend at the National League of Cities Congress (“Engaging Residents in Solutions: Using Data and Technology to Improve Local Government.”) At lunch, I confessed that I really don’t agree with the oft-cited recommendations that the first […]
From Open Data to Better Government: National League of Cities Congress 2013
I’m just returning from a lightning talk and World Cafe session at the National League of Cities Congress of Cities in Seattle, and thought it would be helpful to jot down some thoughts while they’re fresh in my mind. The theme of the session was, “Engaging Residents in Solutions: Using Data and Technology to Improve […]
Code for America Summit – Visual Takeaways 2013
Just got back from the Code for America Summit. I’ll report a little bit more about this, but here are the visual takeaways! (OK, the sign isn’t exactly a takeaway, but I thought it was cute enough to include here.) BIG props to the visual facilitators! (If you know who they are, please link to […]
Beyond Transparency: A Diversity Of Open Data Experiences
This past week, Code for America book released their new book, Beyond Transparency, which I contributed to! I am humbled and grateful to Code For America for the opportunity in general, and Brett Goldstein and Lauren Dyson for specifically thinking of me and our journey at the city where I work. It is for others […]
Can We Secure Open Data?
I always learn something or get to think about something more deeply when I give a talk, because I’m open to being challenged, and yesterday was no exception. Yesterday’s challenge: can we — and should we — secure open data? Yesterday’s talk was on the Microsoft campus in Charlotte, NC, addressing the North Carolina chapter […]