“We need to start teaching young people that we don’t just live in a read-only, passive society, but a write-able society.” — Beth Noveck, NYU Wagner’s newest visiting professor Beth Noveck. Click here for a recap of her recent TEDtalk at TEDGlobal 2012 on demanding a more open-source government. via viewfromthebalcony

Check out NYU Wagner Professor Dan Smith talk about what fascinates him about government and why he has committed his life to public service. He also answers the question, “How do U.S states manage their pension systems and unemployment insurance trust funds to achieve substantive policy goals? ”

This week, NYU Wagner Visting Professor Beth Noveck will be giving her first TEDTalk at TEDGlobal 2012.

Her talk will be during Session 9: The Upside of Transparency, Thursday, June 28, 2012, 2:15pm-4:00pm (Edinburgh, BST/GMT+1). 

Visiting Professor Beth Simone Noveck served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). To learn more about Prof. Noveck, check out her faculty bio, publications and projects here. To see the full TEDGlobal 2012 schedule and list of speakers, click here.

NYU Wagner Visting Professor Beth Noveck will be giving her first TEDTalk at TEDGlobal 2012. Her talk will be during Session 9: The Upside of Transparency, Thursday, June 28, 2012, 2:15pm-4:00pm (Edinburgh, BST/GMT+1). 

Visiting Professor Beth Simone Noveck served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). To learn more about Prof. Noveck, check out her faculty bio, publications and projects here. To see the full TEDGlobal 2012 schedule and list of speakers, click here.

The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management today released their newest publication, Getting Started with Open Data: A Guide for Transportation Agencies. 

Here’s what you need to know:

• This guide is intended to result in streamlined use of transportation services and promote a productive dialogue between agencies and their constituents.
• It is being released as a living document, intended for input from both transportation data owners and users, to result in the most complete open transportation data guide possible.

For more information, head to the NYU Rudin blog.

Our upcoming event “State of the Digital City: Government 2.0 and its Impact on Policymaking” will take place both at NYU Wagner and online. To join the conversation, follow the hashtag #NYUWgov20 and of course, all of our events can be found at #NYUWevents on Twitter. Then panel held on Wednesday, March 21, 7:15PM EST will feature both esteemed experts and practitioners.

Panelists:

• NYC Council Member Gale Brewer, Founding Chair of the Committee on Technology in Government

• John Kaehny, Executive Director and Founding Board Member, Reinvent Albany

• Anthony Townsend, Research Director, Institute for the Future, and NYU Adjunct Assistant Professor

Moderator: NYU Adjunct Associate Professor and Yourlist.org Founder Shankar Prasad

National Farm-City week begins today, connecting city people to the source of their food. Test your farm knowledge. via usagov

futurejournalismproject:

Every six months, Google releases a Transparency Report to show how many government requests it receives to take down content or provide information about its users.

Google complies in a majority of cases, but not all. For example, the company writes that it refused a law enforcement agency request to remove a YouTube video showing police brutality.

Via NextGov:

Governments around the world more and more are asking Google for information, a trend the Internet giant says highlights the need for new rules governing online data.

In the first six months of 2011, government agencies in the United States, for example, made 5,950 requests for information from 11,057 accounts at Google and its video service YouTube, according to numbers released on Tuesday.

That’s an average of 31 requests a day, and amounts to a 29 percent increase over the 4,601 requests of the previous six months. Google says it complied with 93 percent of the 2011 requests.

For the first time, Google also released data on the number of times foreign governments asked it to remove online content. Brazil topped the list with 224 requests, while Germany, which has strict hate-speech laws, asked Google to remove 2,405 separate items. Google complied with most of the requests from both countries.

From January to June 2011 in the United States, there were 92 requests to remove 757 items. Google says it complied with 63 percent of those inquiries.

nycedc:

On the style-centric blog Fashionista, Cheryl Wischhover says the following:

The fashion industry has teamed up with New York City for some serious job recruiting efforts: If you have a passion for the business of fashion (and you’re a graduating college senior), start dusting off…

(via viewfromthebalcony)