Tapas: Spend an hour or so looking for what agencies are doing as part of the Digital Government Strategy.
Instructions: Browse federal government blogs and agency press releases to find government stories about their digital gov innovations. It could be about releasing an API, a mobile application, their work in opening data, a hackathon or datapalooza, or how their digital work has an impact on their stakeholders. Put the URL for the specific blog entry or press release directly in the comments for this post. Include your name and agency affiliation (so we can acknowledge your contribution). We’ll review and reblog your found treasures.
Story guidelines: We are most interested in stories about how agencies are serving the public, but won’t totally disregard enterprise successes. We are interested in reposting primarily from government sources–but a really great news story may work in some cases.
You can see some examples on the Center blog, like:
- From the Department of Labor: Job Search Tools are Going Mobile
- From Department of Transportation: Redesigned www.dot.gov draws a crowd… and goes responsive
- From Department of Energy: Department of Energy Implements APIs in the Cloud
For context, this task is important so agencies can see what others are doing to spur ideas and learn from others’ experiences. Agencies might find opportunities to partner. It’s all part of the formula to help agencies jumpstart their efforts to build a 21st century digital government.
Duration: < 1 hour
Deadline: This is an ongoing task. You can volunteer to do it once, or many times.
By Natasha April 9, 2013 - 2:42 pm
Where should we send the treasure links?
By leilani.martinez@gsa.gov April 9, 2013 - 3:20 pm
You can post them as a comment here. Make sure to leave us your name and agency so we can give you credit!
By Natasha April 10, 2013 - 1:54 pm
Computerworld Honors Census Bureau for Open Data API
4/3/2013
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/miscellaneous/cb13-tps37.html
“The open data API is an integral part of the Census Bureau’s response to the comprehensive federal Digital Government Strategy, of providing data and services that are available ‘anywhere, anytime, on any device.'”
Link Provided By: Natasha Marstiller, FDIC
Source: http://www.census.gov
By gwynne.kostin@gsa.gov April 10, 2013 - 2:22 pm
Natasha, great question! And sorry that we weren’t clearer.
We are looking for government stories of their accomplishments. It could be about releasing an API, a mobile application, their work in opening data, a hackathon or datapalooza, or how their digital work has an impact on their stakeholders–we are much more interested in stakeholders outside of the federal workforce, but won’t totally disregard enterprise successes. We are interested in reblogging or reposting from government sources–but a really great news story may work in some cases.
Sources are primarily federal government blogs and press releases from agencies. You can see some examples on the Center blog, like:
From the Dept of Labor: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/01/18/job-search-tools-are-going-mobile/
From Dept of Transportation: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2012/12/17/redesigned-www-dot-gov-draws-a-crowd-and-goes-responsive/
From Energy: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2012/11/25/department-of-energy-implements-apis-in-the-cloud/
For a little more context, this is important so agencies can see what others are doing. This helps them get ideas, learn from other experiences and may offer opportunities to partner. And that all helps agencies jumpstart their process and get their own products to the public faster. So, finding and sharing these great examples and stories helps us to build that 21st century digital government.
I update the posting to match these requirements. Thanks a bunch for pushing us to be clearer in our requirements. It helps you to succeed, which helps us to succeed.
By Natasha April 10, 2013 - 3:03 pm
Thanks for the clarification.
By Natasha April 10, 2013 - 3:31 pm
Open Data for Agriculture Meeting Focuses on Global Food Security
4/2/2013
Source: http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/04/02/open-data-for-agriculture-meeting-focuses-on-global-food-security/
The importance of open agricultural data will be discussed April 28-29 at the G8 International Conference on Open Data.
“Secretary Vilsack will lead the U.S. Delegation to the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture held in Washington, DC.”
Link Provided by: Natasha Marstiller, FDIC
By gwynne.kostin@gsa.gov April 15, 2013 - 3:15 pm
Good one, Natasha. It’s now published here: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/04/15/open-data-for-agriculture-meeting-focuses-on-global-food-security/
By Stephanie Bardack April 17, 2013 - 12:32 pm
http://healthdatapalooza.org/
HHS is sponsoring Health Datapalooza IV (HDP IV), the 4th annual national conference born from government efforts to liberate health data. The conference is a 2 day forum that features the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data by companies, startups, academics, government agencies and individuals. There will also be an “Apps Expo” that allows attendees to explore innovative new tools and services and interact directly with the developers and data experts who create the applications, and Code-a-Palooza (see next post).
By Stephanie Bardack April 17, 2013 - 12:34 pm
http://healthdatapalooza.org/code-a-palooza/
Part of Health Datapalooza IV, Code-a-Palooza is a contest where ten teams will be selected to compete for $25,000 in prizes in a code-a-thon leveraging a high-value Medicare data set. The selected teams will compete to build an app, tool, or product that could be directly used by primary care providers and/or their office staff to improve the quality of care they deliver towards the total health of their patients.
The exact topic for the Health Datapalooza Code-a-Palooza will be announced on June 2nd at the start of Health Datapalooza IV. Teams must complete their efforts by mid-day on June 4. Teams will retain the intellectual property of their developed application.
By Natasha Marstiller April 18, 2013 - 5:32 pm
4/15/2013
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the winner of a mobile application competition designed to make local assistance resources accessible to people helping homeless Veterans and others in need. Source: http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2434
“Project REACH sought creative and cost-efficient ways to use open data from VA, other government agencies and the private sector to locate valuable resources for the homeless in any locality across the country.”
By gwynne.kostin@gsa.gov April 19, 2013 - 10:01 am
Thanks a bunch rockstar treasure finder, Stephanie Bardack from HHS! Posted your great find on the Health DataPaLooza code-a-palooza (that’s a lot of paloozas!) here: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/04/19/coders-developers-data-scientists-meet-the-code-a-palooza/
Keep those cards and letters coming!
By lisa.nelson@gsa.gov April 19, 2013 - 9:37 pm
Taking Open Government to the Next Level
http://social.dol.gov/blog/taking-open-government-to-the-next-level/
By gwynne.kostin@gsa.gov April 22, 2013 - 4:41 pm
Got the Department of Labor blog up here: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/04/22/taking-open-government-to-the-next-level/
Thanks Lisa Nelson, GSA!
By Stephanie Bardack April 24, 2013 - 8:20 am
More Palooza for your data! DOT is having a Transportation Data Palooza: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpm/events/datapalooza.cfm
From teh Website: The United State Department of Transportation (U.S.DOT) is pleased to announce the Transportation Data Palooza. This event will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at USDOT Headquarters in Washington, DC.
The purpose of this event is to showcase innovative technology solutions that:
• Enhance performance
• Reduce congestion,
• Improve safety,
• Incorporate supplementary/alternative data sources,
• Make use of data mining/analysis tools such as big data analytics or text analytics,
• Pioneers the use of mobility management strategies for moving people and/or goods,
• Visualizes data to enhance understanding of critical transportation information,
• Enhances public access to data,
• Incorporates investment optimization tools (trade-off analysis), and
• Facilitates communication across the transportation industry at the local, state or regional level.
This event is part of U.S.DOT’s efforts to be a central resource for transportation performance management tools, training, and noteworthy practices for implementing MAP-21 performance requirements. The event will consist of an exhibition of interactive transportation data solutions, workshops and panel discussions.
By Stephanie Bardack April 24, 2013 - 8:28 am
US Geological Survey (USGS) announced the winners of their App-lifying USGS Earth Science Data challenge (http://applifyingusgsdata.challenge.gov/). The contest asked app developers to address some of today’s most perplexing scientific challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, and build an app that showed an innovative use of the datasets, and overall ease of use of the app. Prizes were awarded for Best Overall App and Popular Choice App.
By Stephanie Bardack April 24, 2013 - 8:34 am
CDC has developed an interactive app for the Apple mobile OS platform called Solve the Outbreak (http://www.cdc.gov/mobile/apps/sto/). Players get to be the disease detective and learn about diseases and outbreaks in an engaging way, see how disease detectives save lives around the world, and compete against others by posting their scores on Facebook or Twitter and challenging their friends to do better. Available for free in the Apple AppStore.
By Lisa Wolfisch April 24, 2013 - 4:15 pm
http://blogs.census.gov/category/web-transformation/
By gwynne.kostin@gsa.gov April 26, 2013 - 2:47 pm
Great trolling, Stephanie Bardack! You get the GOLD STAR for the week. We published the news about the DOT DataPalooza here: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/04/26/transportation-data-palooza/ and will post the others next week. Keep an eye here and we will send on the links.
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By lisa.nelson@gsa.gov June 7, 2013 - 9:22 am
http://blog.hud.gov/index.php/2013/05/23/one-year-anniversary-of-the-digital-government-strategy-hud-releases-two-apis/
By lisa.nelson@gsa.gov June 18, 2013 - 12:02 pm
https://cio.gov/dgs-spotlight-improving-our-digital-services-to-better-serve-you/
By GK June 18, 2013 - 6:51 pm
Thanks, Lisa. I published the HUD post here: http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/2013/06/18/one-year-anniversary-of-the-digital-government-strategy-hud-releases-two-apis/
I will publish the CIO one this week, too. You are the best!
By lisa.nelson@gsa.gov July 17, 2013 - 11:19 am
Check out this post from NARA
http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=8821