One of the great resources for tracking trends in Open Government, Gov2.0 and related activities is GovFresh.com, a site I recommend all visit and bookmark and track. GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell can be found on GovLoop, LinkedIn, Twitter. Luke recently asked several folks who track the Gov2.0 scene for thoughts on the recent Reactions to the White House Open Government Directive. The directive itself is well worth a read: Open Government … [Read more...]
OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space
June 26, 2009 By
The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI). The list of speakers includes some of the greats from the federal IT scene, including: Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO Tim O'Reilly, Visionary of the Web2.0 movement David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School David Wennergren, ASD NII and DoD CIO Michael Wertheimer, CTO, ODNI Lovisa … [Read more...]
Gov2.0: Time for us all to work on something big
May 14, 2009 By
On 8 and 9 and 10 September 2009 there will be a great confluence of a cause so many of us believe in and people we all respect and trust. The events those days are the Gov2.0 Expo Showcase and the Gov2.0 Summit. The people so many of us respect and trust include a long list of professionals in and out of government who I know are planning to support and attend. But as exemplars I'd like to mention the two co-chairs of the summit, Tim O'Reilly and … [Read more...]
A CTO’s views on the new Fed CTO
April 18, 2009 By
I'm very pleased with the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the Federal Government's CTO. I wish I could add more context than that, and was thinking of a quick biographical sketch of Aneesh and some ideas on why this is great news. Then I read Tim O'Reilly's post at OReilly Radar, and frankly I just totally agree with everything Tim said. Please check out his post at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/aneesh-chopra-great-federal-cto.html Here is an … [Read more...]