open government (from udell)

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Jun 26, 2006; 4:04pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/FYI-CRIS-Info-participate-in-a-SSRC-CRIS-project-tp681p683.html

a podcast about opengovt, hosted by jon udell:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/06/23.html#a1475

BLURB:
Open government is the subject of this week's podcast with Dan Thomas,
who directs Washington DC's DCStat program, and Suzanne Peck, chief
technology officer for the city. I first met Dan at our SOA forum in
November. Recently he contacted me about an exciting new initiative that
soft-launched last week: live data feeds that will enable any interested
citizen to track the performance of agencies that deliver city services.

As a proof of concept, I made this quick-and-dirty mashup that projects
data about street repaving and gutter repair onto a map of DC. It's
exciting to imagine all the ChicagoCrime.org-like application these data
feeds will open up, and how much more easily they'll be accomplished
when it's not necessary to scrape websites for the data.