Open Gov West 2011

A regional open government conference for the western US & Canada

44 speakers

Coverage of Open Gov West 2011

17 sessions

Friday 11th March 2011

• 10:00am First Convener Meeting

Day 1 Friday 13th May 2011

• 3:00am Small is the New Big: How Small, Local Governments are Implementing Innovative Transparency Technology

• 7:30am Day 1: May 13th, 2011 7:30 AM Welcome

• 8:30am Day 1: Keynote

• 10:15am What is Open Gov?

  presented by Karen Quinn Fung and Gary Pollack

• 11:15am Day 1: Creating Open, Accessible, Low-Cost Documents

  presented by Sarah Schacht, Vancouver Archives, Steve Williams, Robert Richards and Spencer

• 11:15am Open Source and Community Sourcing: How Code Sharing is making better gov and community access

  presented by Alan Palazzolo, chachasikes, Deb Bryant, GovHub and Jeremy Canfield

• 1:00pm Day 1: Emergency 2.0 Leveraging Gov 2.0 in a Crisis

  presented by Cheryl Bledsoe, Carol Dunn and Sabra Schneider

• 1:00pm Usability: Strategies for revamping government websites for transparency, accessibility, and ease of use.

  presented by Dustin Hodge and Gordon Ross

• 2:00pm Day 1: Unlocking Your Data: Emerging Data Standards

  presented by Aaron McGowan, Nik Garkusha, Luke Closs, Philip Ashlock, Peter F. Brown and Bibiana McHugh

• 2:00pm The Financial Upside to Civic Engagement & Transparency Technology

  presented by Parking Mobility, max ogden and Depiction

Day 2 Saturday 14th May 2011

• 9:50am Building an Open Gov Platform of the Future

• 10:30am Day 2 Unconference Session: "GOSDOS" Meet-Up

  presented by Karen Barrett

• 12:00pm Census 2010 on the Map

  presented by Eimar Boesjes

• 1:15pm Day 2: Crowdsourced City

Unscheduled sessions

• Day 2 Unconference Session: Wiki Voter Guide

  presented by Decius

• Day 2: YouTown or How To Go Mobile

  presented by Michael Riedyk

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