Gov 2.0 Radio » Technology http://gov20radio.com amplifying the voices of connected government and public innovation Mon, 21 May 2012 11:09:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Collaborative tech in emergency planning + response http://gov20radio.com/2012/04/collaborative-tech-in-emergency-planning/ http://gov20radio.com/2012/04/collaborative-tech-in-emergency-planning/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:57:30 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2012/02/24/collaborative-tech-in-emergency-planning/ Jessica Jackson and Michael Walter from the City of Houston’s Office of Emergency Management talk about the Southeast Texas Regional Technology Seminar & Fair, which has a focus on technology, best practices and regional collaboration in the area of emergency management and public safety.

We’re hoping that this event starts to spawn some conversations about making technology work for everybody – making technology work not just for large jurisdictions, heavily populated jurisdictions, urban jurisdictions but also working for some of those rural jurisdictions and all those places in between.

Jessica Jackson and Michael WalterAbout Jessica Jackson and Michael Walter

  • Jessica M. Jackson, Regional Crisis Information System Administrator for the Southeast Texas region has served the state of Texas in different capacities in the field of Emergency Management since 2006.  Jessica has worked several major incidents throughout the State of Texas including numerous Hurricanes; winter weather storms; wildfires; wide-spread flooding events; and other severe weather related hazards. Her area of emphasis focuses on emergency management technology systems, which help prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate natural and man-made disasters.Jessica graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy and Political Science and received her Masters Degree in Public Administration from Walden University.
  • Michael Walter is the Public Information Officer for the City of Houston’s Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management.  In his position, he coordinates and administers the emergency public information system for the nation’s fourth-largest City.  In his work there, he has been instrumental in the development of strategies for using social media as an emergency communication tool, and the development of a mobile-optimized website for emergency public information. As part of the Houston Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) he also plays a key role in developing partnerships that seek to use emerging and advanced technology to help residents prepare for, respond to, and recover from catastrophic incidences.Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Media from Northern Arizona University and a Master of Public Service & Administration from the George Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University, where he focused on emergency communication response planning. He has previously worked in television news production, higher education, and for a local emergency management agency in southern California.

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We also talk about Granicus’ approach to open data and its acquisition of Daystar Computer Systems, Inc., maker of the Legistar product. Herrera offers great insights for cities looking to fast-track e-gov projects.

“I think public meetings are the highest value dataset,” says Spengler.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/05/egov-legislative-data/feed/ 0 Your Thoughts and Documents, Everywhere http://gov20radio.com/2011/05/thoughts-documents-everywhere/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/05/thoughts-documents-everywhere/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 15:37:16 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/05/01/g2r-2may11/ Ross MayfieldWe chat with Ross Mayfield of SocialText and SlideShare: The co-founder of SocialText and VP of Business Development for SlideShare talks us about how governments use social technology; Zipcast and free social meetings around documents, and the White House’s use of SlideShare to distribute Obama’s long-form birth certificate.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/05/thoughts-documents-everywhere/feed/ 0 From an App to a Business http://gov20radio.com/2011/04/leigh-budlong-from-an-app-to-a-business/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/04/leigh-budlong-from-an-app-to-a-business/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:16:22 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/04/10/leigh-budlong-from-an-app-to-a-business/ Leigh BudlongWe chat with Leigh Budlong about turning her quest for user-friendly zoning information into a San Francisco app, and her plans to take Zonability to communities around the U.S. and the world. “I couldn’t be the only one facing this situation,” Budlong says. She also discusses the challenges of working with government data, and her principle that open data apps should also return value to the data provider.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/04/social-business-gov20/feed/ 0 The Evolution of Open Gov http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/javier-muniz-and-tom-spengler-the-evolution-of-open-gov/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/javier-muniz-and-tom-spengler-the-evolution-of-open-gov/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:20:25 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/27/javier-muniz-and-tom-spengler-the-evolution-of-open-gov/ granicusOpen Government: Tom Spengler and Javier Muniz, co-founders of the government webstreaming company Granicus speak with us about the evolution of open government since 1999, cloud provisioning, going paperless with the iPad, public comment via video, and how they are seeking to work with Gov 2.0 startups aiming to reach the local government market.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/javier-muniz-and-tom-spengler-the-evolution-of-open-gov/feed/ 0 Clean the World http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/clean-the-world/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/clean-the-world/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:22:43 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/20/g2r-21mar11/ A ‘Crazy and Fascinating’ Vision: On May 3, 2008, in one of the world’s pivotal moments for tech-enabled mass collaboration, 40,000 volunteers removed all of the garbage in the country of Estonia in just one day. Since then, similar “Let’s Do It” cleanups have been completed throughout Europe and across the world. Today, the visionary Estonian organizers behind that action have a bigger goal: Clean up illegal dumping, polluted waterways and countrysides across the whole world, state by state, nation by nation, in single days of action staged from March to September 2012. Irmelin Hiie, lead regional coordinator for World Cleanup 2012, explains plans for conferences in DC and San Francisco and the recent launch of Let’s Do It’s campaign to organize 17 world regions and millions of volunteers.

Volunteers and media can learn more about World Cleanup 2012 on the web, or contact Hiie at Irmelin@letsdoitworld.org.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/clean-the-world/feed/ 0 Multimedia activism http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/multimedia-activism/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/multimedia-activism/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:16:45 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/06/g2r-7mar11/ wiggioBringing it all together: Wiggio is a tool for bringing teams together through text, voice, e-mail and more on a streamlined Web interface. We talk with CEO Dana Lampert about building the tool, now in use by more than 50,000 groups, and how political campaigns are fast becoming his biggest market. Jared Dearing, ground operations manager for Sacramento for Jerry Brown, shares about how he used Wiggio effectively in Brown’s winning California gubenatorial campaign.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/03/multimedia-activism/feed/ 0 Open-Sourcing Government Web http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/jeff-walpole-open-sourcing-government-web/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/jeff-walpole-open-sourcing-government-web/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:20:37 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/27/jeff-walpole-open-sourcing-government-web/ Jeff WalpoleOpenPublic: Jeff Walpole, CEO and co-founder of Phase2 Technology, joins Gov 2.0 Radio for a discussion of Drupal and open-source Web development for government.

Wapole’s company has worked on high-profile site launches like WhiteHouse.gov and the U.S. Congress’ move to the Drupal content management system, and this week releases a new distribution, OpenPublic, targeted at the government market.

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]]> http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/jeff-walpole-open-sourcing-government-web/feed/ 0 Mobile Mission Control http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/joe-edelman-and-joseph-porcelli-mobile-mission-control/ http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/joe-edelman-and-joseph-porcelli-mobile-mission-control/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:20:40 +0000 G2R http://gov20radio.com/2011/02/20/joe-edelman-and-joseph-porcelli-mobile-mission-control/ groundcrewOrganizing Your Crowd: Joe Edelman, founder of Groundcrew, and Joseph Porcelli of Neighbors for Neighbors join Gov 2.0 Radio for a discussion of the Groundcrew technology, which allows organizers to use smartphones, Twitter and text messaging to dispatch volunteer teams.

It’s been used for fun community building, by political campaigns, businesses, and, in Porcelli’s case, for organizing teams of folks to shovel snow for elderly neighbors. Porcelli also talks about his new role as director of GovEngage.

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