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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 whi…

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: Speculat…

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/2021-0…

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.

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.

Bingo! See https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif...

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 …

See https://designsystem.digital.gov

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:/…

We're working on it, but it's not a data transparency problem, it's a governance problem

Current activity on GitHub, eg: https://github.com/gsa/datagov-deploy https://github.com/ViderumGlobal/datagov-ckan-cloud-provisio...

@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…

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 Nat…

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…

For those interested in running for office in your area, https://www.runforoffice.org is a great resource to find open positions and get you started. I'm not affiliated with them, …

For what it's worth, OMB is overseeing the Executive Order that requires agencies to compile these inventories. You can find more background at: - https://project-open-data.cio.gov…

I know this is an alpha release, but it's invitation only with the invitation being "help us shape the future of our network" All of which comes across as being much less open and …

There's actually already work being done much like what you describe and it involved the first two rounds of Presidential Innovation Fellows - both to help shape the policy and to …

Thanks for pointing this out. We've updated the highlighted dataset to something that is better maintained, but if you find other problems please do ticket them on github ( https:/…

Thanks, that's flattering. I'm happy to try to answer any questions about this position as best as I can. You'd be working with me. I also try to stay in #data.gov on irc.freenode.…

There's also a thread for this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1o2ijo/learning_from... Even though there are half as many upvotes on Reddit right now, it seems t…

Another victim of success? ;) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/oct/09/...

I would guess it's likely to be produced internally, but much less likely to be public. That said, if there's demand and there's enough good reporting, it seems reasonable to expec…

For those wanting deeper technical analysis around the problems and building off of some of the arguments Clay made about procurement, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…