I’ve been reviewing a very interesting presentation from Paul Ramsay, one of my blog’s Canadian readers. Titled RoboCop, Public Service in the Internet Age, it asks whether government is simply on the internet, or is part of the internet. It frames this question based on whether government is simply using the intranet to replicate the…
There are some very clever people in the US, and a group of them have built some very interesting geospatial systems for displaying government data. For example David Fletcher’s blog has made me aware that the US Census has developed the OnTheMap service for analysing employment data. It offers a number of tools for creating…
This is a great presentation on exploiting location-based information, following on from my post on mashups.
Mashups are, in my opinion, a fantastic tool for allowing people to creatively use data to solve problems or create value. For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to situations where individuals or organisations combine (mashup) data from different sources, often in real-time across the internet to provide hybrid applications. Some of the more…
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