Bobby Caudill
Since 2004, Bobby has been responsible for global go-to-market strategies for Adobe Government Solutions. As a government subject matter expert, Bobby acts as an evangelist for open government solutions focused on citizen engagement. Prior to joining Adobe, Bobby held CTO positions with Ikimbo and VCampus. With Ikimbo, Bobby pioneered concepts that put people back into previously automated business processes by integrating elements of BPM, Instant Messaging, and collaboration. When combined, these elements allowed for a more rapid response to ever changing business environments by gathering the necessary resources, (people - based on presence and availability) into an online collaboration session and providing actionable information to drive better decision making. During his tenure with VCampus, Bobby was the vision behind one of the world’s first fully hosted eLearning environments. Bobby and his team of developers were responsible for creating an environment that was conducive to learning, teaching, engaging and creating using nothing more than early web technologies.

Open vs. Open

7 March 9, 2010 11:00 am

As someone who’s been around the block more than once in the technology industry, I’ve had the opportunity to witness a plethora of developments, ideas and concepts, some good, some not so good. One particular debate, or perhaps, a point is confusion, is around the word ‘open’

A different look at open government participation

0 March 1, 2010 10:18 am

It’s been over a year, and, the evolution of Open Government is in full swing, including the definition of what Open Government is. We all pretty much agree that that OG is about transparency, participation and collaboration, but, what seems to be missing is context. Transparent to who? Participate in what? Collaborate to solve? So far, most of the efforts of the OG community have been focused on raw data sets and dashboards to answer for transparency, feedback collection sites to cover participation and various forms of social media to foster collaboration. Not a bad start, so long as we don’t allow the OG community to claim victory and quit looking for more creative innovations (or definitions of what OG could/should be)