Earlier in the month, I attended the EPA's Environmental Information Symposium - While I didn't post any updates here during the conference, I will now take the opportunity to carry over some of the more fun posts that I made to the Ning site that was set up for the Symposium:
Wordle: Web 2.0 Themes for the EPA Environmental Information Symposium
Wordle: Web 2.0 Themes for the EPA Environmental Information Symposium
"Liberate The Data" A Web 2.0 Success Story: Apps for Democracy
I touched on this during my presentation:
- “Smarter, Better, Faster, Cheaper: Pick 4” – Vivek Kundra, District of Columbia CTO
- The District of Columbia published an Open Data Catalog: GeoRSS, XML, KML and other data types
- They then posted a contest and allowed the public to build applications, built on their Open Data Catalog
- RESULT: In 30 days: 47 new applications for the web, facebook and mobile clients, over $2,000,000 in development at a cost of $50,000 = over 4000% ROI
- http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/
The Web is the Platform
As a potential future paradigm, web-enabled connectivity binds together disparate resources, across EPA program offices, regions, labs, both horizontally and vertically, by transparently supporting access to data, analysis and resources:
For external stakeholders, those EPA resources then similarly become transparent, as part of the "EPA cloud" on the web, whereby the public, whether academia, industry, state or other government alike can access available resources toward supporting their own business requirements, whether watershed stewardship groups, regulated reporting industry, ecology research in academia or others:
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