Enough with long lines at the DMV and other horrors of local government. It's time for cities to drag themselves into the 21st century. Here are the steps some are taking.READ»
Challenge.gov is all well and good, with big cash prizes for innovation, but we've seen a lot of this sort of thing before. Is this the best that America's CIO can come up with?READ»
Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»
Britain's government is a rare thing--a product of a hung parliament--and it's been making hundreds of promises to its citizens. Now a U.K. newspaper has launched a digital tool to see how honest the government is being. READ»
As if in response to yesterday's story about a Princeton scientist's hope to improve government through crowdsourcing, Washington has launched a series of democratic idea incubators that aim to align government action with public ...READ»
Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the U.S., today relaunched his IT Dashboard, a Web site (and now mobile app) that enables anyone to view the finest details of the federal government's $80 billion IT spending. Kundra told Politico ...READ»
Governments are getting the hang of Web 2.0 a few years after the rest of us, and both the U.S. and U.K. authorities have just launched their own Data.gov Web sites in an effort to increase transparency. But in a studied comparison of the two efforts, the U.K.'s wins. READ»
Well, the fervor for iPhone apps can't reach any higher in the U.S. now: The White House has just launched its own app, with live content updates direct from the seat of power. But is this a democratizing move, or mere ...READ»
