Gov 2.0

City Camp MN: Open data discussion

Submitted by Marc Drummond on

Otto Doll, CIO of Minneapolis, led a great discussion on open data. Here are my notes on that discussion.

The city of Minneapolis has a lot of data. That gets put together in information presented to the community by the city. However, what raw data should be shared publicly? (Not all data can or should be shared.) How is that data shared? If we put this data out there, do we put it out there forever? Do we keep publishing it forever? Archiving it forever?

The bingification of government home pages

Submitted by Marc Drummond on

Recently, a number of high-profile government website redesigns have launched with giant search boxes front and center.

This includes utah.gov, calgary.ca and pretty much every entrant in a recent New York City hackathon. Each of these feature a huge search box, and typically a gorgeous photo, with very little additional content on the home page.

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