philipashlock
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Comment · 2 years ago
30 years after HTML was invented to support accessibility and collaboration for research and academia and the same day the White House released their new accessibility guidance which happens to be the first time they've published formal new policy natively has HTML rather than PDF - https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/management/ofcio/m-24-08-stre...
Comment · 3 years ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! For those interested here are some similar recent or upcoming efforts to encourage more participatory and generative civic engagement:
Speculative fiction + civics
- https://open.usa.gov/national-action-plan/5/pilot-new-forms-...
Art x Climate
- https://www.globalchange.gov/content/art-x-climate-project-f...
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/evaamsen/2023/07/27/the-art-fea...
Comment · 4 years ago
Here's some background on the simple open source project used for data reporting on the SDGs co-developed by the US, UK, and some other countries - https://open-sdg.org/blog/2021-01-09-open-sdg-origins/
Comment · 4 years ago
Ecological and resource extractive debt is not magic, they have limits and externalities that most financial systems don't fully account for in their balance sheets.
Comment · 4 years ago
I use PhotoStructure for local management on external hard drives, BackBlaze for offsite backup, and a combination of Flickr and Google Photos for sharing the highlights.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
For examples of the risk of unmaintained government websites, just see https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif...
Also note that Data.gov was participating in a Bug Bounty program through HackerOne which means it was actively encouraging people to find vulnerabilities but is no longer able to respond to them - https://hackerone.com/tts
Here's the official statement:
“As data.gov is not a static site, it requires staff monitoring and maintenance to be online,” a GSA spokesperson told FedScoop in a statement. “Because personnel that monitor and maintain the site are currently furloughed, data.gov redirects to usa.gov. The decision to take data.gov offline is consistent with previous funding lapse practices.”
Via https://www.fedscoop.com/data-gov-open-data-offline-shutdown...
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
The main place to explore spending data is https://www.usaspending.gov/#/download_center/
and
https://datalab.usaspending.gov
Let me know what you can't find or request via https://www.data.gov/data-request/
Comment · 7 years ago
We're working on it, but it's not a data transparency problem, it's a governance problem
Comment · 7 years ago
Current activity on GitHub, eg:
https://github.com/gsa/datagov-deploy
https://github.com/ViderumGlobal/datagov-ckan-cloud-provisio...
Comment · 8 years ago
@danso thanks for the feedback on data.gov. I'm part of the small (3 person) team that helps to manage it. If you have a moment to chat I'll see if I can reach out to you to see if you'd be interested in participating in some more in-depth user research in the future. Folks can also always leave feedback via email, github, twitter, and other means - https://www.data.gov/contact
The Federal Data Strategy will also be opening up for comments again in October - https://strategy.data.gov/feedback/
Data.gov and Federal agencies use the same metadata standard (DCAT) that Google Dataset Search is using so much of our metadata is also being syndicated there.
Comment · 9 years ago
Technology Transformation Service (GSA, U.S. Government) | Web developer (frontend or full stack) | REMOTE or Onsite (DC, San Francisco, NYC, Chicago) | Must be U.S. Citizen or National | Full-Time | $103,672 to $134,776
We're hiring a developer to help support efforts to solicit and analyze public feedback on government service delivery.
Applications are due Friday November 10, 2017 11:59pm Eastern. For more details and to apply go to https://18f.gsa.gov/join/feedback-analytics-engineer-gs15/?u...
This position sits within the Data & Analytics Portfolio (Data.gov, Digital Analytics Program, Feedback Analytics) in the Office of Products and Programs - a sibling of 18F within the Technology Transformation Service at GSA.
Comment · 9 years ago
Data.gov is also coordinating with Archive.org and similar efforts to have a more systematic comprehensive archiving approach. More info should be available soon at http://www.data.gov/developers/harvesting and https://archive.org/details/data_gov
- http://phil.ashlock.us
- http://civicagency.org