GovScape special projects: Recent Episodes
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As the Open Government Tour moves into its closing stages, we took the opportunity to speak with a number of the city organisers who have convened local participatory events as part of the tour. We wanted to find out how the tour is being received, what's being talked about and where this open government and open data conversation could go.
Keith McDonald, Open Data Lead for the City of Toronto talks about the open data and open government journey, as well as his experience with the Open Government Tour 2014. Find out more at http://open.govcampus.co
Bill Turner, host of the Pattern Breaking Summit talks about the insights and learning from the inter-agency event in Innovation Month 2014. More information about the Summit is available at psisummit.govcampau.org
A special live recording recording to celebrate the first birthday of the rebooted data.gov.au portal. Featuring:
- John Sheridan, Australian Government Chief Technology Officer
- Pia Waugh, Director Coordination and Gov 2.0, Australian Government Department of Finance
- Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt, co-founder Open Data Institute, UK
- Jacques Mailloux, CIO, Elections Canada / #OGT14 Ottawa champion
- Richard Pietro, host, Open Government Tour 2014 (#OGT14), Canada
For more information, visit http://govcampus.co/datagovau/
Alex Mochnacki, the Ottawa City Champion for #OGT14 talks about the local event just held in July. For more, go to open.govcampus.co
Abby Robinson, organiser of the Pattern Breaking Summit talks about the event coming up in Innovation Month 2014. More information and registration for the Summit is available at psisummit.govcampau.org
John Whiting of Crown and Marks previews his talk at the Pattern Breaking Summit for Innovation Month 2014. More information and registration for the Summit is available at http://psisummit.govcampau.org
A conversation at the Peel Region event for #OGT14, hosted by Allison Hornery and featuring Jacques Mailloux, Ron Jaros and Richard Pietro. For more information, visit http://open.govcampus.co
Jacques Mailloux, the Ottawa City Champion for OGT14 talks about the local event in September.
William Wolfe-Wylie shares his thoughts on the current and future state of open government in Canada
Kyle Geske, the Winnipeg City Champion for OGT14 talks about the local event in August.
Keith Loo from Microsoft Canada's Make Web Not War initiative talks about supporting Richard Pietro's Open Government Tour 2014.
David Eaves talks to us about his perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by Open Government
Richard Pietro speaks with us at the launch of his Open Government Tour across Canada in 2014.
Timothy Pilgrim, the Australian Government's Privacy Commissioner, on tips for privacy. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2014/05/paw2014
Privacy complaints and enquiries are on the rise. We talk with Timothy Pilgrim, Australian Privacy Commissioner in the countdown to the international Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) 2014. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2014/05/paw2014
Privacy complaints and enquiries are on the rise. We talk with Timothy Pilgrim, Australian Privacy Commissioner in the countdown to the international Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) 2014. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2014/05/paw2014/
Thom Kearney from Rowanwood Consulting reflecting on a quote from GTEC2013: "Business is from Mars and IT is from Venus". For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/10/gtec2013/
Richard Pietro from Citizen Bridge on the new language of govtech. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/10/gtec2013/
Tiago Peixoto from the World Bank Institute's ICT4Gov program discusses the value, opportunities and challenges of participatory budgeting. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2012/04/citizen-engagement-participatory-budgeting/
Prof. John McMillan, the Australian Government's Information Commissioner, on the importance of the active involvement of all tiers of government in open government activities. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/06/australia-ogp/
Prof. John McMillan, the Australian Government's Information Commissioner, on the economic impetus of open government. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/06/australia-ogp/
Ashley Casovan from the City of Edmonton on lessons learned from developing their citizen dashboard. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/04/citizens-edmonton
Ashley Casovan from the City of Edmonton on gaining organisational support for open data activities. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/04/citizens-edmonton
Ann Kempster, CommsCamp 2013 co-organiser on the power of unconferences. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/04/commscamp
Ann Kempster, CommsCamp 2013 co-organiser on the importance of digital in the mix of communications channels and tools for the public sector. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/04/commscamp
Carles Ferreiro from dotopen on the role of the entrepreneur as a change agent for civic innovation. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/03/commons4eu/
Esteve Almirall from ESADE Uninversity on their co-creation approach to building the Commons4EU program. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/03/commons4eu/
John Bracken from the Knight Foundation on how Open Government fits the Knight Foundation's communication focus. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/03/newschallenge/
John Bracken of the Knight Foundation on how the 2013 News Challenge on Open Government has sparked new conversations. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/03/newschallenge/
Rich Olsen from Utah Interactive on lessons learned from building Utah.gov. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/02/utahgov/
Dr Jennifer Robinson from the University of Utah's Center for Public Policy and Administration on why measuring the benefits of online service delivery is important. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/02/utahgov/
Chris Sopher of the Knight Foundation on making public information useful as a key focus area for the 2013 News Challenge. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/02/opengovchallenge/
Chris Sopher of the Knight Foundation on framing Open Government for the 2013 News Challenge. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/02/opengovchallenge/
Chris Sopher of the Knight Foundation on what they are hoping will be achieved from the 2013 News Challenge. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/02/opengovchallenge/
Torbjörn Fredriksson of UNCTAD on why e-business is important to community development and sustainability. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/02/info-economy/
Torbjörn Fredriksson of UNCTAD on managing expectations about ICT as a tool for development. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to gov20radio.com/2013/02/info-economy/
Torbjörn Fredriksson of UNCTAD on the importance of measuring the information economy for governments. For the full interview, as well as links, images, social channels and more go to http://gov20radio.com/2013/02/info-economy/
David Ferriero is the 10th Archivist of the United States at the US National Archives and Records Administration. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012.
Tomasz Janowski is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of USU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012
Barbara Ubaldi is the E-Government Unit Project Leader for the OECD. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012
Jeanne Holm is an Evangelist for Data.gov and co-chair of the World Wide Web consortium's eGovernment interest group. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012
Jim Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012
Dr Anne Thurston is the Director and Founder of the International Records Management Trust. Find out more about our ICEGOV 2012 coverage at http://gov20radio.com/icegov2012
Theresa Pardo is the Director of the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany at the State University of New York. Theresa is also the Co-Chair of the 2012 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
Hear from Selena Georgiou from the UK Met Office about her experience in bringing the Growers' Nation project to life during the International Space Apps Challenge.
Join Jessica and Adam from the Vicar2PNG to hear about their winning project and the experience of working as remote participants in the International Space Apps Challenge
Join Cyan, Max and Jason from the UK for a chat about their experience at the International Space Apps Challenge, and their winning project Planet Hopper.
Simeon Oriko from the iHub in Nairobi chats about the experiences of the Nairobi participants at the International Space Apps Challenge
Join the organising team for Bangalore, India as they talk about their projects, and the experience of participating in the International Space Apps Challenge.
Sumen Rai, organiser of the Adelaide location shares some of her experiences and observations from the weekend's event.
Join Peter Mbari from Nairobi, Kenya for a chat about his team's project BitHarvester which won the People's Choice award in the global judging for the International Space Apps Challenge.
Join Stefan Kueppers for a chat about the Strange Desk initiative, winner of the Most Innovative award in the International Space Apps Challenge
We chat with Matt Purcell, IT and Commerce Teacher and student Lochie Ferrier from Canberra Grammar School who participated in the GovHack, and won the 'Best Spirit of GovHack Award for 100 Years.
This is an iPad application which provides a visual representation (data visualisation) of the past 100 years of rainfall and temperature data provided by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. While many applications provide jumpy and difficult to follow visualisations, Matt and Lochie intend to provide a much more appealing and easily understood representation of this historical information.
A fun and inspiring chat with the German-based team behind Global Service Jam events who are now collaborating with the Australian Department of Innovation to pilot GovJams nationally and worldwide. Hear Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormeß on the stages of service rapid prototyping, city-specific Jams and... lots of inspiring stuff.
As part of the Australian Government's APS Innovation Week 2012, G2R takes a look behind GovJam, happening around the world in June 2012. We meet with the government team behind the initiative - Wayne Larkin and Mikaela Griffiths - from the Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) based in Canberra.
Nick Skytland from the NASA Open Government team interviews Gov 2.0 Radio's Allison Hornery and John Wells about their experience and insight in covering the International Space Apps Challenge.
Lyle Roberts, organizer for the Space Apps Challenge in Canberra talks about how the 4 Australian cities collaborated over the challenge weekend, and learnings from the initiative.
Jason Rebholz from the @america team shares some of his experiences and observations from the weekend's event in Jakarta
Chris Gerty from NASA and Naomi Mathers from VSSEC discuss the experience and outcomes from the Space Apps Challenge events around Australia, hosted by Melbourne.
NASA Astronaut and Open Government team member Ron Garan shares his experiences and observations from the 2012 International Space Apps Challenge.
Deputy White House CTO for Government Innovation Chris Vein shares his observations about the outcomes from the International Space Apps Challenge
The polar regions are Earth's window to outer space. As part of our International Space Apps global coverage Gov 2.0 Radio drops in to the ice continent talking with Clay Ellis in Antarctica and Brian McLaughlin in Maryland, United States.
Clay is McMurdo Ground Station operator with the NASA Space Communications Network Services(SCNS) project. Brian, formerly with Hubble and LandSat, is the Lead for Simulator Development with the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program.
We discuss life under Antarctic conditions; McMurdo's role as a fast-access data gateway for the world's weather services and others; as well as how opening and sharing data creates new opportunities for scientists and citizens.
Hear from Fumi Yamazaki of Google Japan about space ice cream, a Japanese astronaut special guest, Hayabusa and the Japanese community of space lovers as well as apps to help in such crises as the 311 disaster.
Alp Burak Pehlivan and Mahmut Demirst from Base-Istanbul talk about the developer community in Turkey's capital, open hardware and being inspired by a fellow Space Apps lead organizer in Stuttgart.
Türk dili özeti dinleyin (Listen to Turkish language summary)
Base-Istanbul'dan Mahmut Demir, Alp Burak Pehlivan adına, Istanbul'da yapılacak Uzay Uygulamaları Yarışması'nın (SpaceApps Challenge) Türkçe özetini sunmaktadır.
(On behalf of colleague Alp Burak Pehlivan, Mahmut Demirst from Base-Istanbul provides a Turkish language summary of the upcoming Space Apps Challenge local event in Istanbul.)
Rob Simpson of Zooniverse in Oxford, UK talks crowd-sourcing and citizen science: Participatory social media mashups; people solving problems that computers can't; and discovering what you didn't expect.
Mike Saunby gives us a sneak preview of the Exeter event, where the expertise (and hidden talents!) of the Met Office team will be on hand to guide local participants through the challenge weekend.
Andreas Hornig talks about the Space Apps Challenge at the Stuttgart ShackSpace which is drawing interest from across Germany and even France. He says every project will be a starting point for doing some good.
We connect the Haiti crisis, emergency data and a NASA astronaut. CJ Hendrix is the Information Management Officer for the UN's Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Geneva, and here presents a compelling snapshot of a software challenge to be run from the Lausanne Space Apps event for better information sharing for humanitarian crisis response using Linked Open Data.
Simeon Oriko from the iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, discusses Pete's coffee, how hackathons create new shared opportunities, and the enabling power of Space Apps on a developing country with no space program.
Australian organizer Dr Naomi Mathers, together with Andrew Maher from partner organization Arup, explain how the Space Apps challenge across 4 Australian cities will have a local thematic focus on the built environment, regional development, climate adaptation and disaster management.
Vancouver organizing team Angelina Fabbro and Bill Mills talk about how they are looking forward to showing as many people as possible how fun it can be to interact with "big blue ribbon science".
Settle in for a fascinating perspective on data visualization wtih Jeffrey Hayes from NASA HQ. Jeffrey discusses the challenges of working with science data, and offers some useful advice for the Space Apps teams working collaboratively on the data visualization challenges.
Carl Sagan, tacos and global tech4good. A fun chat with Willow Brugh of Geeks Without Bounds & Dan Woods of TechShop about the International Space Apps mainstage city event in San Francisco.
Dr Jon Rogers from the University of Dundee explains "Open Hardware" Challenges. Can a physicist, a jeweller and a product designer creating hardware to bake bread in space also help struggling communities on Earth?
With NASA's Nicholas Skytland and Ali Llewellyn, we take a snapshot of NASA's newly re-released Open Government Plan looking at why a revised Plan has been produced, the internal processes and ongoing value to the organization. As well as an overview of the key contents and underlying principles we look at take-up strategies as well as internal relevance to day-to-day operations.
This special episode is a conversation with NASA Astronaut Ron Garan, who's part of the Open Government team at NASA and brings a unique perspective to the International Space Apps Challenge, having just returned from 6 months on the International Space Station.
You can find out more about Ron from his Fragile Oasis website, follow his work with the Unity Node project and we also recommend watching Ron's TED talk.
Santo Domingo city lead Ray Hernandez from Las Americas Institute of Technology brings a developing country perspective to the International Space Apps Challenge.
NY Tech Council Executive Director and Founder Donn Morrill chats about the NYC tech sector, the StartUp Bus and New York City's International Space Apps Challenge event.
Meet the super keen organizing team behind Miami's Space Apps Challenge event - David Lagomasino and Stephanie Long from Florida International University, as well as Jose and Jay from local sponsor CBIL360.
Talking with the White House's Chris Vein and NASA's Nicholas Skytland on the April Open Government Partnership meeting of nations ahead of NASA's Space Apps Challenge in over 25 cities.
The first global code-a-thon to also include the Space Station and Antarctica promises to show how a diversity of people and skills can collaborate to create scientific and social benefits from open data.