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The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-05-22
While grandma flips through photo albums on her sleek iPad, government agencies (and most corporations) process mission-critical transactions on cumbersome web-based front ends that function by tri...

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IdeaScale Powers 24 Crowdsourcing Sites For The U.S. Government

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-02-07
Yesterday, California’s Chief Technology Officer, P.K. Agarwal, wrote that the government is using a crowdsourcing tool, IdeaScale, to get a consensus on the ideas to spur IT innovation around the ...

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IdeaScale Powers 23 Crowdsourcing Sites For The U.S. Government

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-02-07
Yesterday, California’s Chief Technology Officer, P.K. Agarwal, wrote that the government is using a crowdsourcing tool, IdeaScale, to get a consensus on the ideas to spur IT innovation around the ...

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California’s CTO Responds To Our Challenge With His Own: Give CA Your Best IT Ideas

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-02-06
Editor’s note: In a pair of posts a couple of weeks ago, contributing columnist Vivek Wadhwa highlighted the antiquated nature of the state of California’s IT systems and the way contracts for thos...

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Consumer Groups Lobby FTC To Block Google’s Acquisition Of AdMob

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-12-28
Google recently revealed that the Federal Trade Commission was intensely reviewing the search giant’s recent $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. Last week, Google said the FTC has ...

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An App Contest For San Francisco

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-10-01
This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. Newsom is also running for governor of California in the upcoming 201...

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Tweeting About The Gov 2.0 Summit May Cause Serious Account Suspension

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-09-09
In an ironic twist of fate, a number of people related to O’Reilly Media, as well as others guilty of using Twitter to express thoughts and commentary about and from the Gov 2.0 Summit, have found ...

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US Government To Embrace OpenID, Courtesy Of Google, Yahoo, PayPal Et Al.

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-09-09
During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama administration wo...

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Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-09-04
Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O’Reilly Media and a conference organizer. O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago...

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Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-08-27
This post was written by Frank Gruber, who cofounded TECH cocktail, a startup that looks to help people involved with technology connect at events, which it throws around the country. Tonight’s eve...

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Can Open Government Be Gamed?

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-06-30
If information is power, the first step to gaining power is to get the right data. The Obama administration is a big proponent of opening up government data and making it digitally available. Today...

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President Obama, Where’s Our CTO?

18x18 TechCrunch   2009-04-10
President Obama incorporated technology into his election campaign in an unprecedented way, became known as the YouTube president within the first week of being elected, and seems to be forward thi...