The T in CTO doesn’t stand for Talk
Looks like NZ will get a CTO real soon now. It’s hard to avoid the word “debacle” in describing how it came about: a false start at making an appointment, a whiff of impropriety in …
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Auckland City Data Sales
I used LGOIMA, the local government equivalent of the Official Information Act, to request details on how much revenue Auckland City council and the Auckland-area collective geospatial body made from …
Minister of Internal Affairs (pre)
I’m meeting the Minister of Internal Affairs for 20m today at 12.30. I want to talk with him about the Government’s move to open data: what do they hope to achieve, what is he driving, and …
Gov 2.0 Summit: Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra is the US Federal CTO. The conversation on stage between him and Tim O’Reilly began with an explanation of the role of the CTO vs that of the CIO (Vivek Kundra). The impression I …
Gov 2.0 Summit: Clay Johnson
The second Clay, hairier and less well-dressed. Head of Sunlight Labs, part of the Sunlight Foundation. I was at his house on Monday night for a turkey cook-off between him and Chris DiBona of Google. …
Gov 2.0 Summit: Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky, clad in the world’s shiniest shirt, was introduced as “The Oscar Wilde of the Internet” but that was doing him an injustice for Clay is a fantastic combination of …
Gov 2.0 Summit: Tom Steinberg
Tom Steinberg is my pioneer hero of open government. His group, MySociety, is a British non-profit building things on the web. His things work: fix rate for FixMyStreet is about 50%. That means 10s of …