This document is a presentation on practical government use of internet technologies given in 2008 by Silona Bonewald. It discusses open data standards like microformats and OAuth that can make government data more accessible. It suggests allowing the community to illuminate and interpret government data through wikis, blogs, and other tools. Examples provided include the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr and IamCaltrain that crowdsource information. The presentation argues this is an inexpensive way for government to make data available to citizens.

1. Practical
Government
innotech 2008
by Silona Bonewald

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

3. • 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

4. practical?

5. • Capable of being put to use

6. Open
data standards

7. OPen formats

8. Microformats

10. OAuth

11. But it is more than just
formats...

12. Really anything will do...

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

14. It is the easiest thing
Govt can do...

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

18. TransitCamp

19. Transit camp

21. Library of Congress
photostream

24. We can help!

25. If you let us...

26. 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

27. 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

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

29. 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

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