Open Data Series for Philly
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According to their site, Technically Philly, in conjunction with the Institute for Public Affairs at Temple University, is starting
a six-month William Penn Foundation-funded project “toward collaborative projects using technology and journalism to increase the availability and use of actionable government data.”
One of their planned outputs is:
Research conducted into comparable city best practices for increasing availability and use of actionable government data.
This project is bigger than Philly. They plan to
…curate a conversation on a broader, national movement around releasing municipal data and information on the grant project’s landing page here.
The series’ website (Transparencity) already has an interview with Philly’s interim CTO, Tommy Jones.
Sounds like a cool project. Have you heard of anything like this happening in other cities?
HT @TechnicallyPHL‘s Tweet on Twitter.
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Gov't & Technology, Local Government, Open Government
VM NewsFlash 1/28/2011
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It’s the snow version!
Nominations being taken for an Open Government Hall of Fame
- Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2011.
Sunlight Foundation Blog Post: “The Local Open Government Directive”
- “The full document, including versions with and without collaborators’ comments, is available at: opengovernmentinitiative.org/directive/v1/.”
“Congress uses social media to talk, not listen”
- “The divide between broadcast and feedback is even starker for YouTube, which 20 percent said is very important for communicating whereas only 4 percent said the same about understanding.”
- “download the survey results and report from the Congressional Management Foundation (.pdf)”
Some Info from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project:
- Released Jan 27, 2011: “22% of online Americans used social networking or Twitter for politics in 2010 campaign” (by Aaron Smith, found via Twitter, 1/28/11)
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Snow Photos – 1/27/11
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Well, we got a lot more snow last evening. Here’s some photos that I took near our office around noon.
Have you taken snow photos? Link to them in the comments section!
Click on the image for a larger photo…
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Snow Pic
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Here’s what it looked like right near our office on Wednesday morning in Lancaster, PA…
(Click here for full view)
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VM NewsFlash 1/21/2011
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“PA releases interactive performance dashboard for state agencies”
- “In releasing his administration’s fourth Report on State Performance, [former] Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell unveiled an interactive dashboard that monitors agency activities, priorities and challenges. The 2009-10 report helps citizens and other interested readers evaluate Pennsylvania’s efforts to deliver services during the national economic downturn, the governor said.”
“New Republicans Put the ‘Tech’ in Congress” (on techPresident)
- “Politico’s Jennifer Martinez writes up how the brand-new Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives is eager to bake new technologies into their style of governing…”
“FOIA Friday: Appealing your denial of police records” (via @vielmetti)
- Some tips on how to get information (could be useful for citizens and journalists)
- “The key to getting records from any organization via FOIA is to ask enough times until your request returns something other than a complete rejection.”
“Exploring Gov 2.0 in Madison, Wisconsin”
- “All three articles are excellent, and include several kind nods towards this blog and to Code for America and Civic Commons, two of the civic innovations organizations to watch in 2011.”
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