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Alex Howard
Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Correspondent for
O’Reilly Media. Before joining O’Reilly, Howard was the associate
editor of SearchCompliance.com
at TechTarget. His work there
focused on how regulations affect IT operations, including issues of
data protection, privacy, security and enterprise IT strategy.
Howard’s previous work experience includes working in operations for
an e-business consultancy, as a
knowledge broker for a management
consulting firm, as an apprentice to a master home builder and, very briefly, as a garde manger at an Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive webA decision to strike down patents to the "Interactive Web" is an important victory for the networked commons.
A Texas jury has struck down a company's claim to ownership of the interactive web. Eolas, which has been suing technology companies for more than a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patents.
With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platformThe U.K. moves from alpha.gov.uk to beta.
A new beta .gov website in Britain is scalable mobile-friendly, platform agnostic, uses HTML5, open source, hosted in the cloud and open for feedback. Those criteria collectively embody the default for how governments should approach their online efforts in the 21st century.
"The President of the United States is on the phone. Would you like to Hangout on Google+?"Can a Google+ Hangout bring the president closer to the citizens he serves?
President Obama will join the first presidential Hangout on Google+ on January 30, 2012, as part of the White House's commitment "to creating a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."
The week the web changed WashingtonCollective action halted SOPA and PIPA. Now we're in unexplored territory.
Collective action channeled through the Internet halted the progress of SOPA and PIPA this week. The promise of these communication tools has come of age, and they'll be sorely needed to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Can Maryland's other "CIO" cultivate innovation in government?Bryan Sivak looks for ways to change the status quo.
Maryland's first chief innovation officer, Bryan Sivak, is looking for the levers that will help state government to be smarter, not bigger. From embracing collective intelligence to data-driven policy, Sivak is defining what it means to be innovative in government.
2011 Gov 2.0 year in reviewA look at the Gov 2.0 themes, moments and achievements that made an impact in 2011.
What Gov 2.0 issue mattered most in 2011? Disruption caused by an increasingly mobile and networked society certainly ranked high. Other key developments included a new Open Government Partnership, emerging civic media, open source adoption, new civic startups, the growth of open data, and fights over intellectual property and Internet freedom.
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