Practical
Government
innotech 2008
by Silona Bonewald

Who am I?
well you can google
me...

• On the Internet since 86
• On the web since inception
• Ran political campaigns 89-94
• Wrote political software 94-96
• first paid site on web 96
• started ISP 97
• large CMS systems 98-04
• started LoTV 04- present
• OS evangelist for Grid.org

practical?

• Capable of being put to use

Open
data standards

OPen formats

Microformats

OAuth

But it is more than just
formats...

Really anything will do...

The Inexpensive way...
Let the community do it!
we want your data

It is the easiest thing
Govt can do...

let citizens
illuminate it
for you
Of course -
then we are responsible for what we say
and how we interpret it...
an added bonus

TransitCamp

Transit camp

Library of Congress
photostream

We can help!

If you let us...

Credits:
many concepts here are borrowed from
http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue
images are credited on each slide
URL’s are listed on each screen capture
The picture of me is not released under Creative commons license but is
All rights reserved by Steven Noreyko. It may be copied for purposes of
redistributing this presentation but may not be altered or reused in a
different context.
Font is evil Genius BB

Learn more:
what is a...
wiki? http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
Blog? http://www.blogbasics.com/blog-tutorial-1-1.php
google doc? can you use word? you don’t need one! http://docs.google.com
rss feed? http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
podcast? http://www.commoncraft.com/mygads
Chat? http://www.davesite.com/webstation/inet101/chat01.shtml
Social Software? http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
SMS texting? http://www.commoncraft.com/mygads
Social Bookmarking? http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
forums/bulletin board groups? http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000768.html

This Prezo is
listed under
Http://slideshare.net/innotech2008

Sites to see!
• creativecommons.o
rg
• wikipedia.org • wiki.participation.e.govt.nz
• flickr.com • maps.google.comgroups.g
• opensocial.org oogle.com
• iamcaltrain.com
• twitter.com
• flickr.com/photos/
• microformats.org
library_of_congress
• openid.net
• oauth.net

How to contact me?
Silona.com
silona@silona.com
(512) 750-9220
Silona_bonewald on Skype