Business Week attributes an increased interest in Open Source software to the shrinking economy. ReadWriteWeb cites a report conducted by Accenture that millenials (i.e. those born between ’77 and ’97) will ignore IT departments that don’t support their IT preferences and applications. That is to say, many emerging social apps like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and [...]
Open Source, Social Media, and Open Government
December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · OpenSource, policy, social
Tags:economy·government·Internet·open_source·social_software·Web
Improving access to government information through standardization
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments · data, standards
Via Slashdot, this article suggests that the public would be better served by exposing government data through a simple standards-compliant data infrastructure. In his Computerworld post, Patrick Thibodeau cites the example of JDLand blog in how the public (bloggers, in this case) might make use of a standardized public data infrastructure. More here: Let’s turn [...]
