Making Government 2.0 a Reality: A Citizen's Guide to Essential Reforms
summary
A practical reform agenda surfaces: replace $80M bespoke contracts with commodity data centers and iterative apps, unlock public data feeds, and fix procurement and legal blocks (indemnity, anti‑deficiency, Paperwork Reduction Act, Section 508, Presidential Records Act). Concrete wins include CapStat and Apps for Democracy with $20,000 prizes, Baltimore’s 48‑hour pothole guarantee hitting ~96–97% success, and Virtual Alabama — a secure Google Earth backbone for state data at about $180,000 license serving 550 agencies — showing rapid, low‑cost disaster and management improvements.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 9:48Public Data Feeds
- 11:27The Data Catalog
- 12:42Guide to Bars and How To Avoid Crime When You Are Leaving the Bar at Night
- 21:16What about the Reporting in the Stimulus Bill
- 24:48The Agency Head Dashboard
- 25:05Statewide Project Inventory
- 27:29Obstacles
- 27:57Acquisition and Procurement Rules
- 29:10Gratuitous Service Agreements
- 34:28Can the Government Sign a Contract with a Web Two Point O Service That Is Not Section 508 Compliant
- 35:37Section 508 Applies to Embedded Content
- 39:06About Third Party Websites and Embedded Content
- 39:56Fisma Requirements
- 43:14The Presidential Records Act
- 44:51Commercial Endorsement
- 54:33Participation and Why It's Hard
- 55:35Peer to Patent
- 59:00The Clinger Cohen Act
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