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Smarter Stories for Better Cities: Rick Robinson at TEDxWarwick 2013 9 Apr 2013 | 03:33 pm
Smarter Stories for Better Cities: Rick Robinson at TEDxWarwick 2013 With cities around the world growing at a rate of 2 people a second, 5 billion people are expected to be living in cities by 2030....
Addressing the European Data Forum 2013 9 Apr 2013 | 03:33 pm
Addressing the European Data Forum 2013 Neelie Kroes, European Commission, addresses the 2013 European Data Forum about the benefits of open data, and three ways the EU is supporting. http://2013.d.....
The new Open Data portal in a nutshell? must see 9 Apr 2013 | 02:35 am
The new Open Data portal in a nutshell? must see http://reviewersdigest.com/downloadvideo An introduction to Open Data from the European Commission. This portal is about transparency, open government...
Creating Strategic Foresight in Government 9 Apr 2013 | 01:43 am
Does it make any sense for the government to think long term? One agency, NASA, developed a 200-year strategic plan, at one point. They engaged futurists and science fiction writers to help develop a ...
Google: “+1 to civic startups” 8 Apr 2013 | 10:02 pm
Code for America, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs, is excited to announce a new Incubator program, which will support Code for America fellows as they seek to turn their products into com...
ARIA: Robots with Adaptive Software for Autism Therapy (And why I want to hack them!) 8 Apr 2013 | 03:00 pm
The Dude goes to a school that has an autism unit. Apparently that's a pretty rare feature among schools in our city. What makes it even more special is the way they get all the kids interacting on a ...
The messy reality of open data and politics – The Guardian (blog) 8 Apr 2013 | 02:27 pm
The Guardian (blog)The messy reality of open data and politicsThe Guardian (blog)With current UK government agendas emphasising support for entrepreneurial, rather than civic, re-use of open data, a s...
Open data shifts from apps to big issues – Politico 8 Apr 2013 | 01:49 pm
Politico Open data shifts from apps to big issues Politico The term open data brings to mind images of next bus apps and geeks poring over data sets about potholes, but advocates say the next phase c...
‘Open Data’ catalogue coming this month – StarPhoenix 6 Apr 2013 | 12:35 pm
StarPhoenix 'Open Data' catalogue coming this month StarPhoenix The city's “open data” catalogue, to be launched later this month, will make City Hall databases available for use by software develope...
Should open-government violators go to jail? – Salt Lake Tribune (blog) 6 Apr 2013 | 06:09 am
Should open-government violators go to jail? Salt Lake Tribune (blog) Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the University of Maryland's journalism school, recently called for more incentives for government empl...
