On Thursday 10 Dec 2009 O'Reilly media will be providing a free, half day, online event, the Gov2 Online Conference. From the organizers: The O'Reilly Gov 2.0 Online Conference is a FREE, half-day event that will show off five examples of Web 2.0 creating greater collaboration, transparency, and efficiencies in government - from solving a budget crisis in the Golden State to improving the flow of information between state government and the media; from … [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...]
Work on “Stuff That Matters”
May 17, 2009 By
Over the last couple years there has been a meta-theme in Tim O'Reilly's discussions, blog entries and other writings on the topic of working on "Stuff that Matters." This makes for great, motivational reading, especially for the CTO or other technologists since good techies have so much to offer. There are also a couple good video clips on this topic I've embedded below. If you have yet to watch them please check them out. . … [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...]
My Thoughts on the “Washington’s Tech Titans” List
May 9, 2009 By
I was a bit puzzled when I found out I made the "Washington's Tech Titans" list assembled by Washingtonian Magazine. Why in the world would they put me on that list? Well, it is certainly good press and I'm definitely honored that they would consider me. Here is what they wrote: "Bob Gourley, founder and CTO, Crucial Point. As former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a prolific blogger at his site, CTOvision.com, Gourley is a respected … [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...]