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Building a better .gov beta
I recently reviewed a federal agency beta website, easily added a few comments with the help of a very accessible feedback tab and, feeling satisfied I'd participated in some form of civic collaboration and engagement with my government, moved on.
Save the date (May 31-June 1) and hack your city
The goal of the annual event is to "bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs together to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to improve our communities and the governments that serve them."
Seven habits of a highly effective FCC
Federal Communications Commission Chief Information Officer David Bray has outlined a new technology modernization strategy that includes teleworking, cloud-based collaborations, access to open data, an “open source by default” policy and more transparency into agency operations.
Harvard offers $100K government innovation award
The Award for Public Engagement in Government is a new component to the center's standing Innovations in American Government Awards program.
Calling .gov startups: apply for the 2014 Code for America accelerator
The program lasts four months and includes training and mentorship, network and publicity, in-kind services and support and $25,000.
NASA re-launches open innovation efforts
NASA Deputy CIO and CTO for Information Technology Deborah Diaz introduced a new open innovation team via a rebooted open.nasa.gov.