Category Archives: Standards
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On Data Standards for Cities
6February 26, 2013 by mheadd
Creating open data standards for cities is really, really hard. It’s also really, really important. Data standardization across cities is …
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Creating the Commons
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2012 by mheadd
“Building a culture of collaboration and participation is a key ingredient to making innovative programs work in cities.” Listen to …
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Building an Open311 Application with Node.js and CouchDB
Leave a commentMarch 3, 2011 by mheadd
Lots of work is being done to finalize the next version of the Open311 API spec (officially referred to as …
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The Key to Open Gov Success: Common Standards
Leave a commentFebruary 23, 2011 by mheadd
There is a really good post on the state of open government in Canada and the use of specific data …
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Open311 Goes Big Time
2March 4, 2010 by mheadd
This was a big week for the Open311 initiative. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra joined Gov 2.0 rock star Mayor Gavin …
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Coming Full Circle on 311
2October 23, 2009 by mheadd
Tomorrow in New York City, developers, project managers, public policy specialists and others will come together to discuss an open …
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Open Gov: A Means to and End
2July 7, 2009 by mheadd
With all of the activity and excitement taking place around the country focused on new Government 2.0 and open government …
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Measuring Gov 2.0 Performance
2June 9, 2009 by mheadd
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” – Lord Kelvin There is a lot of exciting …
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