Ignite Government 2010 schedule

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• Better than Winning the World Series: Boston Opens Real-Time Transit Data

  by Laurel Ruma

  What happens when you combine two risk-taking government employees, an active developer community, and a bus schedule? Unlimited amounts of innovation, improved customer service, praise for an embattled government agency, and a model for building a government/citizen developer partnership. Hear how the Massachusetts Department of Transportation learned from TriMet that open is better.

  • Ignite
  • Open Data
  Coverage video

• Designing and Developing Effective and Efficient Municipal Websites

  by Rami Kassab

  • Web Design
  Coverage video

• Give me back my Facebook: What you don't understand about Web users

  by Abraham Hyatt

  • Usability
  Coverage video

• GovHub: Open Source and Open Government Collaboration

  by John Miller, Jarhid Brown, Greg Lind and civhub

  • Government
  • Open Source
  Coverage video

• Learning from Bangalore: Urban Informatics at Street Level

  by Zack Denfeld

  • Bangalore
  • Urban Informatics
  Coverage video

• Lessons Learned from a Regional Approach to Open Data and Civic Apps

  by Skip Newberry

  • Open Data
  Coverage write-up video

• Operation Bearclaw: the real story behind OSS adoption in the US government

  by John Weathersby

  Technical and economic benefits of open source software are well documented within the IT world. However, these traits alone are not what has enabled open source to find a home within much of the government's massive enterprise system. This presentation will reveal some of the seldom discussed, yet essential tools and tactics that have directly lead to wide spread open source adoption within the US Department of Defense and Federal Government agencies.

  • Open Source
  Coverage video

• Principal Versus Law. How rules create crime, how Ideas prevent them

  by Lou Alvis

  Laws are a machine, and not a very smart one. Principles are living parts of your mind, and can adapt to new conditions. Accessing laws requires Expensive specialists, Principles are available to the understanding of all.

  Here we shall challenge the most basic idea of government, the Rule of Law. The goal is to replace the heavy handed mechanistic methods of the 17th century legal system with a simpler, practical, reflexive system of legal principles. These can be applied without obtuse, specialized expertise. The principle of Voluntary Association will be our test example. Open source government will be the affirmative proposition.

  • Law
  Coverage video

• The Government as Community Curator

  by Justin C. Houk

  • Curation
  • Government
  Coverage video

• The Value of Voice: How much is your tweet worth to legislators?

  by Sarah Schacht

  • Twitter
  Coverage video

• Why middleware is the key to a successful gov 2.0

  by Max Ogden

  • Gov2.0
  Coverage video