Calling All Citizen Innovators - Get Ready for Data.gov!

Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by corbett3000closeAuthor: corbett3000 Name: Peter Corbett
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If you missed the recent post by The Sunlight Foundation’s Sunlight Labs about “Redesigning the Government: Data.gov” make sure you read it, because it’s a brilliant look at what Vivek Kundra’s proposed Data.gov could be.

Government 2.0 Club was created to bring together folks who are interested in using technology to better deliver services to citizens, and provide efficiency within and between government agencies of all kinds - and in that vein we’re doing our part to make sure that Data.gov will be one of the most important innovations in government since…well…ever maybe.

There will surely be a groundswell around Data.gov once their first batches of open government data go live (rumored to be at coming out at the end of May). In preparation for this event please fill out this simple form, which will enable us to do the following:

1) Bring developers all over America and the world together to participate in citizen driven innovation opportunities like code jams, BarCamps, contests like Apps for Democracy & Apps for America and meet-ups that will focus on Data.gov

2) Help the technology community have a say in how and what gets published to Data.gov

3) Invite you to meet other like minds that are interested in mashing up Data.gov content

Sign-up for updates here. Tell your friends!

Oh and you can always sign-up to guest blog here if you want to tell people what you think about Data.gov or anything else government 2.0 related.

By Peter Corbett

Tags: apps for america, apps for democracy, citizen innovation, data.gov, government 2.0, Sunlight Foundation, vivek kundra