Posted in innovation on Jun 24th, 2008
If bureaucrats were to shut down their websites and simply fed data to whoever wanted to comb it out, as one group will soon propose, would we have failed at Government 2.0?
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Posted in innovation on Jun 23rd, 2008
Almost no one has mentioned Government 2.0 in the same breath as business intelligence—yet they’re destined for each other.
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Posted in innovation on Jun 18th, 2008
I was thinking about Government 2.0 at about midnight last night—when the dark, quiet world gives way to ghosts. Then it’s easy to imagine BI tools and methods opening government to the masses.
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Posted in innovation on May 24th, 2008
My friend Marco called me up scared of what Internet visionary Don Tapscott had said on Tuesday’s Talk of the Nation. Tapscott foresees a day when technology makes government—such as spending—directly accessible to the masses.
“Do you realize,” Marco said, “that all this Government 2.0 stuff, where just anyone could see where the money’s going and [...]
Posted in innovation on Apr 7th, 2008
Who says one-person operations can’t use business intelligence? I don’t want MicroStrategy to outfit my tiny office, now near San Francisco, with its latest and greatest. No, but I do want a company like Intuit, ever more interested in the one-person market, to understand that money isn’t the only data individuals should track.
Posted in innovation on Jul 1st, 2007
Al Cherdak, an independent developer of enterprise software, has been seeing BI consolidation first hand. It’s killing innovation, and the Big Guys will save themselves by fixing it, he says.