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  • Two Great Upcoming Windows Phone Webcasts

    Tags: Windows Phone, Public Sector, Open Gov, Open Data, Webcast

    Jan 17 2012 10:31 AM
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    My team at Microsoft is teaming up with ComponentOne to deliver a series of webcasts to demo how easy it is to build Public Sector mobile solutions on Windows Phone.

    1. Session I: Fast Track Your First App
    2. Session II: Give Your Apps Some POP

    Be sure to register today.

    [found via Joel Reyes]

  • Open Data Open House

    Tags: Open Gov, Open Data, Gov2.0

    Mar 13 2012 5:49 PM
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    This Thursday, the Ides of March, there will be an Open Data Open House in DC. Registration is free.

     

    Help launch the Data.gov developers’ community space of the people, by the people, and for the people. Let your voice and ideas be heard!

    • Get engaged in the developer community space on Data.gov
    • Improve the developer’s experience on Data.gov
    • What tools do developers need?
    • What data is missing from Data.gov?
    • What information would be most helpful in using open data?

    Check out the EventBrite page to learn more.

  • Introducing JobsRadar

    Tags: Windows 8, Public Sector, Jobs, Open Data, Open Gov, Geospatial

    Apr 2 2012 4:52 PM
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    What happens when you take open government data, Twitter, Bing maps and Windows 8?

    A whole lot of mash up awesome sauce.

    I’d like to introduce you to JobsRadar, an app my team has been working on to showcase the use of Windows 8 in the public sector.

    As the name implies, the focus of JobsRadar is the current state of the job market in the United States. If you’ve been watching the news, you know that the state of things are not great.

    Thanks to this app, you can have a visualization of the unemployment rate right at your fingertips.

    Country wide view. Note the unemployment rate graph at the bottom. Very Metro. Winking smile

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    With Windows 8, we can leverage the location aware APIs to focus in on the unemployment rate in your location:

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    If you’d like to look at other aspects of labor related data, we’ve provided those data sets as well.

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    No mashup app would be complete without a connection to Twitter. Here, we track trends in certain keywords. You can edit and create your own.

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    The main focus of JobsRadar is jobs, but these data sets could just as easily be any other data set that you’d want overlaid on a map. (aka geo-spatial data sets). 

    Think about the possibilities.

    I hope to make JobsRadar available on CodePlex to provide a starting point for your Windows 8 Metro apps.

    In the meantime, get the tools and start building up your Win8 Mojo today.

  • Seven Great Open Government Data Sources

    Tags: Open Data, Open Gov, Public Sector

    May 9 2012 8:47 AM
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    If you’re thinking about Open Government data (or writing a Windows 8 app that uses open data), then here are seven more sites to add to your list of data sources.

     

    1. POPVOX
      POPVOX tracks all of the bills in Congress, and how members vote. If you sign up and give your information, the site will track how your representative and senators vote on bills.
    2. OpenCongress
      Here’s a fantastic tool for paying attention to Congress, despite its editorializing, OpenCongress also lets you follow the money trails by industry sector
    3. Poligraft
      Give Poligraft the text to an article, press release or blog post, and it will provide an "enhanced view" of the people, organizations and their relationships. For example, enter the URL to a political story, and it will filter the story for points of influence, campaign donations and individuals referenced in the story.
    4. OpenSecrets.org
      The OpenSecrets.org site is a treasure trove of information for tracking the influence of money on U.S. politics.
    5. MuckRock
      Ever thought about filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request? The folks over at MuckRock have. In fact, they've filed more than 1,000 requests and received more than 30,000 pages of government documents.
    6. Federal Register
      Want to see what executive orders are coming from the White House, or rules being proposed by federal agencies? Then you'll want to take a look at the Federal Register. The U.S. government posts notices, proposed rules, rules taking effect and "significant documents" for public inspection.
    7. Follow the Money
      Finding out who's spending what, and how.

     

    [found via ReadWriteWeb]