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Dec 21

Open Government, Open Business, Open dialogue: a UK view of social media and government

This is a copy of a piece I’ve written for the December 2011 issue of Service Contractor [PDF page 14], the magazine of Professional Services Council in the United States. All links are at the end of the article.
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On May 16, 2011, Jeremy Hunt, U.K. secretary of state for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, asked
citizens and those who work in fixed or mobile communications, television, radio, online publishing, video games, and other digital and creative content industries for responses to an open letter reviewing communications in the digital age. The open letter contained a series of questions aimed at gathering business and citizen ideas “to help frame the Government’s initial approach to deregulation and maximize the communications industry’s contribution to economic growth.”
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Jul 18

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New project aims to map Open Data around the world

A broad coalition of stakeholders have launched DataCatalogs.org, a new project to keep track of open data initiatives around the world.

The alpha version of the project launched on 30 June 2011 at the Open Knowledge Foundation’s* annual conference in Berlin, with the aim to be ‘the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world’. The reason for the initiative is explained in their press release as follows:
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Jul 11

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Doing business in the USA: inside the beltway – the industry view

Live blog
Panel with:
Scott Johnson, principal, Rock Creek Strategic Marketing
Steve Radick, lead associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
David Almacy, senior vice president, digital public affairs, Edelman
Dominic Campbell (chair)

First up, Scott. They do strategy driven design and he started the company with his wife. One of the things that has helped them is that branding is now so important for many organiations and people. We have learnt to re-invent ourselves over and over again. There are a lot of opportunities in DC that aren’t to do with Federal government. There are 8,000 associations for instance in the area. Their interest in starting the company was having a job and being around for a long time. They’ve find their outlet through being interested in things outside their direct revenue. We’ve done very well, he says, without an earth shattering idea. He doesn’t want people to think that you have to have a break-through idea or being innovative is necessary to work in DC.
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