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Lonely Planet: NASA Needs Your Best Ideas About Exploring Mars

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Due to severe budget cutbacks, NASA’s Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. has instructed a number of his senior administrators to “lead a reformulation of the Mars Exploration Program” in order to continue space exploration on a budget. To do that, NASA is sponsoring a June, 2012 workshop in Houston to ... Read more »
Government, Laboratories and Research, Open Solutions
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Who To Know: Rana June Sobhany

Rana June Sobhany, better known as DJ Rana June to some, took a break from her tour to play the Publicyte launch event in Washington, DC recently. Widely recognized as one of the most innovative people working at the intersection of technology, music, and art, she continually inspires people in both the technology and music ... Read more »
Apps, Education, Music, Open Solutions, People, Who To Know
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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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Can Social Media Save Political Survey Research?

Kristen Soltis (Washington, DC) – As landlines become less and less prevalent, and as people become less and less interested in talking to pollsters, how will the field of opinion research evolve and survive? I believe that the answer is to completely rethink how we approach public opinion research. This doesn’t just mean finding new ways to ... Read more »
Gadgets and Mobile, Open Solutions, Politics, Social Software
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Five Cultural Trends Shaping Public Service

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – When I was coming into my new role at Microsoft, I took on the task of reading more widely about business, communications, and other topics. I was very influenced by the new book Chief Culture Officer, written by Grant McCracken of MIT. It’s not about pop culture, and not about “cool ... Read more »
Books, Celebrities, Citizen 2.0, DIY, Fashion, Government, Nonprofits, Open Solutions, Philanthropy, Real Impact, Social Software
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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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What Is Open Government Entrepreneurship?

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Tim O’Reilly often explains Open Government, or Government 2.0, as “Government as a Platform” on which citizens and build things for each other and participate in their government (rather than treating it like a vending machine).  The co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident Andrew Rasiej has a similar notion that ... Read more »
Apps, Citizen 2.0, Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurship, Government, Leadership, Open Solutions
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Random Hacks Of Kindness For Humanity

Patrick Svenburg (Washington DC) – What happens when brainy folks from NASA, The World Bank, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google put their heads together to develop innovative solutions to humanity’s problems? Random Hacks of Kindness, or RHoK, is about building a community of innovative people who can contribute technology expertise to help make the world a better place.  ... Read more »
Apps, Citizen 2.0, Civic Hacking, Events, Government, Open Solutions
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