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What's on our radar.
'Let's start delivering information to the right person at the right time - that's the value of open gov'
Dan Morgan‘s comments on my “How do you measure the value of Gov 2.0?” post offer an insightful perspective I feel they warrant a post of their own.
How do you measure the value of Gov 2.0?
Creating sustainable, meaningful civic contributions to government is something I’ve addressed before, and it’s something that continues to elude us in the form of civic applications and hackathons, despite the overwhelming attention given to each.
Voter ID and Civic Innovation
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How Joomla is powering government
We've heard a lot about Drupal and WordPress in government, but not much about the open source platform Joomla. We asked Joomla External Communications Lead Sandra Ordonez to share how government is using it, its key features, how it compares to Drupal and WordPress and what governments are using it.
How government can empower citizens in the redistricting process
In January 2011, Michael McDonald and Micah Altman founded the Public Mapping Project and began building the open source platform DistrictBuilder to give citizens more of a say in the redistricting process.
Trust the vote: How open source will change our elections
After watching the documentary Hacking Democracy, I started researching how government uses voting technology to conduct elections. That's how I learned about the work of Open Source Digital Voting Foundation.