A Facebook group called Upgrade Democracy is collecting a list of "teams/organizations working on technology-powered solutions to the systemic problems of governance/group decision-making." They want help in expanding the list … [Read more...]
Get This App and Get Out The Vote!
Tech President sums it up well: Hop on over to My.BarackObama.com/CommitChallenge, type in your reason for voting, and the app published your intentions to your Facebook Wall. But it also sets you up to tweak your Facebook friends, one … [Read more...]
Tech@State
I learned of this series through Jan Chipchase, formerly of Nokia and presently with Frog Design, http://janchipchase.com/2010/0... His presentation http://designmind.frogdesign.c... - text and slides http://www.ustream.tv/recorded... - … [Read more...]
Energy Events
MIT Monday, January 11, 2010 Mass Energy Trek Time: 8:00a-5:00p Location: Meet in E51 Tang Lobby at 8am Mass Energy Trek is a three-day trek in the second week of January during IAP. It's is the Energy component of MIT Tech Treks organized … [Read more...]
eGov Summit: March 6th and 7th in London
There is a conference that a number of people who read this blog may be interested in attending. The eGov Summit is being held this March on the 6th and the 7th in England. Here's the websiteTaken from the conference website:"Transforming … [Read more...]
Belated thanks for Technology Working Group input!
Many thanks to all who commented last Monday at the Patrick Transition Team's on-line Technology Working Group Open Meeting. You can read the thread, and all the ideas posted here, and there were a handful of comments posted here as … [Read more...]
[Was] Going on Now on BMG! Technology Working Group Community Meeting
The Governor-elect asked that our group concentrate on the following:A plan to implement statewide WiFi (or ubiquitous broadband)Using technology to rebuild communitiesAllowing for greater transparency in governmentWho is here: Louis … [Read more...]
Reminder: Technology Working Group, 7:00 PM Tonight on BMG
Hi Folks,This is a quick reminder that the Technology Working Group will be holding an online community meeting right here on BMG between 7:00 and 8:30 tonight. We hope you can join us.The Governor-elect asked that our group … [Read more...]
State web sites: Michigan puts us to shame
The results are in: the best state website in the country belongs to Michigan. So says a study released recently (and which unfortunately costs $250) of state, county, and city websites by the National Policy Research Council and … [Read more...]
Patrick/Murray Technology Working Group Takes on ODF and Microsoft
The Patrick/Murray transition team Technology Working Group (that's a mouth-full) has an online community meeting planned for December 11th @ 7:00pm on BMG. How about we start pulling together a list of topics to cover?The diary on … [Read more...]