Jennifer Bell of VisibleGovernment.ca posted up slides from her talk at the Social Media for Government conference at #ALI last week. Here they are.
I wasn’t able to see it in person, but it looks like it was a good overview of reasons why open sourcing Government makes sense. Points to examples – the Peer-to-Patent project and the Sunlight Foundation in the US, and FixMyStreet from mySociety.org in the UK.
The slides don’t specifically mention the ChangeCamp concept, but it is a clear parallel, happening here in Canada. ChangeCamp Toronto came off recently and was a great success, leading to some really interesting ideas.
During her talk, @thornley asked about bringing a ChangeCamp to Ottawa.
thornley @remarkk I just asked who is familiar with ChangeCamp. Only 2 @citymark and @cwightman. Is anyone organizing a changecamp in Ottawa? #ALI
thornley I’d like to help organize a #changecampOttawa. Who else is in on this?
And lo and behold, planning is underway. First meeting is at 6 pm tonight at the ClockTower. I’ll be there. Deets on the ChangeCamp Ottawa wiki.
What's a spaghetti test?
[...] And now, the conversation continues online and in real life – the ChangeCamp wiki is being tended to by participants and people are still posting, podcasting and processing their thoughts on the day. Ottawa was Canada’s second ChangeCamp. (Here is a great recap how ChangeCamp arrived in the nation’s capital.) [...]
[...] And now, the conversation continues online and in real life – the ChangeCamp wiki is being tended to by participants and people are still posting, podcasting and processing their thoughts on the day. Ottawa was Canada’s second ChangeCamp. (Here is a great recap how ChangeCamp arrived in the nation’s capital.) [...]