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Twitter Streams The Republican Nevada Caucuses

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – In case you’ve missed most of the current election season so far, you may not have noticed that Twitter — which is more mainstream than it has ever been — is working with business partners, political candidates, and news organizations to innovate how the average voter engages during their caucuses, primaries, ... Read more »
Big Data, Politics, Social Software
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Envisioning 24/7 Citizen Services

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Governments at the national and the local level have made a lot of progress toward a vision of more open, collaborative, tech-savvy government. Nevertheless, there are plenty of examples where the official or accepted manner of communication with a government agency is via old-fashioned methods — calling a toll-free phone ... Read more »
Big Data, Cloud Computing, Government, Online, Real Impact
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Sand Table 2.0: Modern Warfighters Connecting With Data

Phil West (Charlotte, NC) – In the days of General Eisenhower, war planners used small 3D models embedded in sand — a sand table — to understand and prepare for battle or other operations. And to some degree, 2D diagrams and 3D models are definitely still used. However, in the modern U.S. Army, some warfighters are ... Read more »
Apps, Big Data, Defense, Gadgets and Mobile, Real Impact, Why Microsoft
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Interactive U.S. Public Transit Maps

Joanne Harrell (Bellevue, WA) — The Brookings Institution and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new online data visualization tool that is designed to help cities and counties align public transportation resources to job creation goals. Built on Windows Azure and Bing Maps with Microsoft partner EastBanc Technologies, the application ... Read more »
Academia, Big Data, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Corporate Citizenship, Geo, Nonprofits, People, Real Impact
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Government Data As A Service

Phil West (Charlotte, NC) — Data.gov recently turned two years old. On the White House blog, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wrote about how far Data.gov has come since starting on May 21, 2009. From 47 datasets on day one, it catapulted to 273,000 in the first year and 390,000 today. Impressively, Data.gov has inspired 16 ... Read more »
Big Data, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Government, Open Solutions
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The Voting Information Project

Kim Nelson (Chevy Chase, MD) – In the run-up to the 2008 elections, approximately 120 million people went online seeking information about the general election, and four out of five Americans visited a government website in search of information or assistance. While it’s no surprise that citizens are seeking information online, the Pew ... Read more »
Apps, Big Data, By the Numbers, Civic Hacking, Cloud Computing, People, Politics, Real Impact
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Open Government Needs Data Psychologists

Phil West (Charlotte, NC) — A large part of Open Government is what people have termed “open data” – in other words, making what should be publicly-available data more findable, searchable, accessible, useable, and sharable online. Here, I discuss a strategic vision for turning storehouses of data into actionable information that is useful, consumable, and interesting. ... Read more »
Big Data, Government, Open Solutions
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