Civics

I interviewed U.S. Department of Justice Chief Information Officer Vance Hitch during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit, where he discussed cybersecurity priorities and cloud computing security.

This week at FedScoop we’re featuring Donna Dodson, Division Chief of the Computer Security Division and the Deputy Cyber Security Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as FedMentor of the Week. I interviewed Dodson during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit in February. Full playlist:

37signals points out Apple’s use of the word ‘integrated’ as opposed to ‘open’ in the ongoing ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ debate (Apple changes words in order to change the debate), and it has important relevance to the open government movement.

Students from the Manor New Tech High School created a fantastic Manor GovFresh Reflection video about manor.govfresh.

U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck wrote about the manor.govfresh event and De Leon, TX, makeover on the White House Blog (City in a Box: Municipal Makeover Comes to Texas). manor.govfresh was a collaborative effort between GovFresh and the City of Manor, TX.

BetaCities is a new community for ‘catalyzing municipal government innovation’ founded by Dustin Haisler. I created the logo, icon and ‘Change is local’ tagline. Used Harbara Bold and Symbol font for the beta ‘B.’

The dark secret behind the City of De Leon, TX, Website was that it was designed, developed and deployed in 24 hours. As part of the manor.govfresh ‘City Makeover,’ I re-designed and developed the new De Leon Website using the free GovFresh WordPress Theme as the foundation.

Alex Howard has a great overview of manor.govfresh in the Huffington Post. He notes how U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck recognized our work around open government and putting together the event (Harnessing the Civic Surplus for Open Government).

Founder and CEO of Crimereports.com Greg Whisenant mentions my work with GovFresh and manor.govfresh in How do we get government to share data? on O’Reilly Radar.

sf.govfresh was an incredible event that brought together San Francisco’s finest government technology leaders, local area public servants and citizens sincerely passionate about building effective government. Adobe supported us in making that event happen and received an incredible amount of appreciation from the community.