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by philipashlock 3y ago
30 years after HTML was invented to support accessibility and collaboration for research and academia and the same day the White House released their new accessibility guidance which happens to be the first time they've published forma
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by philipashlock 3y ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! For those interested here are some similar recent or upcoming efforts to encourage more participatory and generative civic engagement: Speculative fiction + civics - https://open.usa.gov/
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by philipashlock 4y ago
Here's some background on the simple open source project used for data reporting on the SDGs co-developed by the US, UK, and some other countries - https://open-sdg.org/blog/2021-01-09-open-sdg-origins/
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by philipashlock 4y ago
Ecological and resource extractive debt is not magic, they have limits and externalities that most financial systems don't fully account for in their balance sheets.
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by philipashlock 5y ago
I use PhotoStructure for local management on external hard drives, BackBlaze for offsite backup, and a combination of Flickr and Google Photos for sharing the highlights.
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by philipashlock 8y ago
Bingo! See https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif...
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by philipashlock 8y ago
For examples of the risk of unmaintained government websites, just see https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif... Also note that Data.gov was participating in a Bug Bounty program through HackerOne
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by philipashlock 8y ago
See https://designsystem.digital.gov
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by philipashlock 8y ago
The main place to explore spending data is https://www.usaspending.gov/#/download_center/ and https://datalab.usaspending.gov Let me know what you can't find or request via https://ww
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by philipashlock 8y ago
We're working on it, but it's not a data transparency problem, it's a governance problem
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by philipashlock 8y ago
Current activity on GitHub, eg: https://github.com/gsa/datagov-deploy https://github.com/ViderumGlobal/datagov-ckan-cloud-provisio...
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by philipashlock 8y ago
@danso thanks for the feedback on data.gov. I'm part of the small (3 person) team that helps to manage it. If you have a moment to chat I'll see if I can reach out to you to see if you'd be interested in participating in some
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White House to host major companies for summit on AI(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by philipashlock 8y ago|0 comments
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by philipashlock 9y ago
Technology Transformation Service (GSA, U.S. Government) | Web developer (frontend or full stack) | REMOTE or Onsite (DC, San Francisco, NYC, Chicago) | Must be U.S. Citizen or National | Full-Time | $103,672 to $134,776 We're hiring a
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by philipashlock 10y ago
Data.gov is also coordinating with Archive.org and similar efforts to have a more systematic comprehensive archiving approach. More info should be available soon at http://www.data.gov/developers/harvesting and https:
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by philipashlock 10y ago
For those interested in running for office in your area, https://www.runforoffice.org is a great resource to find open positions and get you started. I'm not affiliated with them, just think they're a great cause.
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by philipashlock 12y ago
For what it's worth, OMB is overseeing the Executive Order that requires agencies to compile these inventories. You can find more background at: - https://project-open-data.cio.gov/ - http://www.digitalgov.g
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by philipashlock 12y ago
I know this is an alpha release, but it's invitation only with the invitation being "help us shape the future of our network" All of which comes across as being much less open and decentralized than the current web. Even if t
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by philipashlock 12y ago
There's actually already work being done much like what you describe and it involved the first two rounds of Presidential Innovation Fellows - both to help shape the policy and to facilitate implementation. I'm referring to Proje
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by philipashlock 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. We've updated the highlighted dataset to something that is better maintained, but if you find other problems please do ticket them on github ( https://github.com/GSA/data.gov/issue
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by philipashlock 13y ago
Thanks, that's flattering. I'm happy to try to answer any questions about this position as best as I can. You'd be working with me. I also try to stay in #data.gov on irc.freenode.net, but haven't really promoted it so i
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by philipashlock 13y ago
There's also a thread for this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1o2ijo/learning_from... Even though there are half as many upvotes on Reddit right now, it seems to be driving most
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by philipashlock 13y ago
Another victim of success? ;) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/oct/09/...
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by philipashlock 13y ago
I would guess it's likely to be produced internally, but much less likely to be public. That said, if there's demand and there's enough good reporting, it seems reasonable to expect something worth reading.
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by philipashlock 13y ago
For those wanting deeper technical analysis around the problems and building off of some of the arguments Clay made about procurement, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518739
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Learning from the Healthcare.gov Infrastructure(civicagency.org)
17 points by philipashlock 13y ago|6 comments
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by philipashlock 13y ago
You might also be interested in SparkleShare which replicates the functionality of Dropbox using Git http://sparkleshare.org/
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by philipashlock 14y ago
There's also the US Government's Github including the White House: * White House: https://github.com/WhiteHouse * Other Federal Agencies: http://gsa.github.com/federal-open-source-repos/ Some state and local ones are listed at: * http:
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by philipashlock 15y ago
I have a basic app that does this using GeoServer, it's pretty simple and all open source. See http://beta.democracymap.org
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by philipashlock 15y ago
It's also worth noting that Congress is threatening to cut the budget for the project that tracks overspending on IT projects - the IT Dashboard. While the IT Dashboard tool was properly open sourced and the codebase is doing well out in th

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