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Semantics and gov20

Lessons of the last two weeks; Open Government != gov20 gov20 != Open Government Open Data != gov20 Open Data != Open Government gov20 != open data Open Government != Open Data eGovernment != Open Data gov20 != eGovernment blah … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Citizens / Consumers

The final post in my series of none scientific reviews of gov20 adoption will focus on citizens and consumers. It is worth asking friends and family what they think gov20 means to them, and how they think some of the … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Politicians / Civil Servants

For the second of my none scientific posts about the adoption of gov20 I thought I would look at the progress that has been made by elected officials and government employees. This is a little harder to take a single … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Developers / Technologists

So, for the first in my series of none scientific posts about the state of gov20 deployment I thought I would pick up the easiest of the three segments that I mentioned yesterday and look at how developers and technologists … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, finding a model

The day I started my first technology marketing job my hiring manager presented me with a book about the technology adoption lifecycle. It is a phenomenally useful way of looking at the market adoption of a new product or technology, … Continue reading

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And you thought you were done with gov20…

With several national gov20 plans now published I thought it would be worthwhile jotting down some reminders of the work that is still ahead if these plans are to be realized. Many of the items listed below represent opportunity for … Continue reading

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RDF and Open Government Data

More often than not the topic of RDF (W3C’s Resource Description Framework) comes up soon after you get into any conversation about open government data.  It comes up as the discussion strays into ways of making published datasets more valuable … Continue reading

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The City of Edmonton and OGDI

I’ve been trying to avoid “blogging the news” recently but this one was hard to pass up. The Canadian City of Edmonton was in the news for a couple of unrelated reasons this morning, first of all as the Olympic … Continue reading

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Searching Open Government Data in four dimensions

The current trend of governments releasing massive and diverse datasets will demand something different from internet search tools in the future, something that we might consider a little extraordinary today. Today most of us search in a single dimension, we … Continue reading

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Open Government Data and The Great Expectation Gap

The level of activity around the world in opening up government data is nothing short of astounding. Governments at every level have engaged citizens, businesses and developers in combinations of public discussions and hackfests to look at how the data … Continue reading

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