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Getting E-Gov Out There in San Francisco
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- Description:
- Using the San Francisco Open Data initiative as an example this panel will explore what is required to help local or regional governments open up their data to their citizens. This project used the power of Open Source, citizen volunteers and collaboration to generate successes.
- Questions
Answered: -
- What are the challenges for local governments wanting to share their data with citizens?
- How does Open Source help E-government projects?
- How did you get citizen volunteers involved and what did they do?
- What was the hardest part of co-ordinating volunteers?
- How did you make sure a project provided by volunteers didn't run out of steam?
- What did the city of San Francisco have to provide to make the project work?
- How did you work with other cities/regions and how successful was that?
- What did you do to make the data easy to access for geeks and regular citizens alike?
- What are the best formats for sharing government data?
- What would/are you have done differently to make this kind of project more successful in the future?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Case Study, Community / Online Community, Government and Technology, Non-Profits, Open Source
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
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