CityCamp Colorado 2012 on UserVoice

Best Practices in opensource deployments in other cities around the world. Real live case studies

2012-10-18T05:11:37+02:00

sharmila Wijeyakumar suggested:
I can present case studies of best practice used in cities in the UK, Italy, spain etc for value gained from opensource deployements by citizens & cities.

Create a platform (both spatial & digital) that enables government and NGO organizations to collaborate with creatives & researchers.

2012-10-15T05:34:47+02:00

Julia Pellicciaro suggested:
City officials and NGO employees are continually making decisions regarding the allocation of city and community resources. How can these decision-makers best assess what and where to allocate in an effective manner? A platform enabling decision-makers, community researchers, and designers to regularly collaborate could channel pertinent community knowledge as well as human-centered design expertise on how to best address both citywide and community issues.

Brainstorm how we can leverage the cities.data.gov initiative and tie it in with opencolorado.org

2012-10-06T00:50:30+02:00

Leslie Labrecque suggested:
The federal data.gov initiative recently announced a local open government initiative called cities.data.gov. How can we leverage the technology they are using and create a cohesive data set with opencolorado.org?

Should cities create a petition system for citizens to raise issues

2012-09-13T21:15:26+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
For example, the White House created the We the People petition site: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

Should Denver (or other cities) develop a city council e-comment system

2012-09-13T21:13:09+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
Online commenting would give people who are unable to attend meetings in-person to have a voice in their city government.

Add the Colorado Information Marketplace to OpenColorado

2012-09-13T21:05:14+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
The Colorado Information Marketplace has the potential for opening a wealth of state government information. The marketplace and OpenColorado have the ability to share data with each other. Centralizing state and city data under one catalog could be an extremely valuable resource.

Hold a data session for posting data sets / building the OpenColorado data catalog

2012-09-13T20:58:10+02:00

Hold technology training sessions

2012-09-13T07:43:59+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
Hold a how-to session on using a specific technologies, such as: Wikis Twitter Facebook WordPress Google Drive

Create an open government evaluation template/form/process and review Denver's open government progress

2012-09-13T07:38:32+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
A couple examples: OpenGov Indicators: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/opengovmetrics/dCz7dq9UHYw From the Local Open Government Directive: The evaluation will indicate if the city has not satisfied, partially satisfied, or fully satisfied the following criteria: (1) Experts and other stakeholders were consulted when creating the Open Government Plan; (2) The public was involved in developing the Open Government Plan; (3) The Open Government Plan includes all of the elements required in the Open Government Directive; (4) The city has established processes and a timeline for publishing information and data sets online; (5) The city has established processes and a timeline for making underlying, raw data available online; (6) The city has effectively promoted its open government efforts to the public; (7) The city has effectively promoted its open government efforts to private sector stakeholders; (8) The city has established efficient public feedback mechanisms; (9) The city has reviewed, responded to, and incorporated public feedback; and (10) The city has established processes to revise its Open Government Plan to reflect changing public needs and new technologies. As an alternative to the evaluation standards described, a 5-star rating system could be established to evaluate the city’s progress: 1-star: Make your stuff available on the web (whatever format) 2-stars: Make it available as structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table) 3-stars: Non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel) 4-stars: Use URLs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff 5-stars: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context White House Open Gov Plan Evaluation: www.whitehouse.gov/open/documents/evaluation EPA Example: www.epa.gov/open/evaluate.html White House summary: www.whitehouse.gov/open/around

Launch a competition at CityCamp Colorado for the best idea & team to solve a community need.

2012-09-13T07:03:22+02:00

Anonymous suggested:
CityCamp is an opportunity to connect needs and issues with solutions. Government, nonprofit, and other community leaders will be able to connect with policy, public affairs, and technology experts who can brainstorm ideas, find resources, and innovate. For example, see CityCamp Raleigh: opensource.com/government/12/6/what-open-source-can-teach-government-officials

Launch a data catalog using OpenColorado.org [updated]

2011-10-25T15:38:30+02:00

Open source web front ends are now available for opencolorado.org (PHP & .NET - goo.gl/jzRza). Learn how your organization can quickly get online with an open data catalog that integrates with OpenColorado.org.

Allan Glen said:

A live demo of the .NET front end is available at goo.gl/3LC32

To see the PHP front end in action visit arvada.org/opendata