Apps For Texas
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0, appsfortexas, citizens, opendata
Unedollar kicks of Apps For Texas Today. The launch page was hosted www.appsfortexas.org using Unbounce. Last year getting involved at FeedScoop Events and other government technology events we ran into Open Data and DC catalog, looking at which we got completely excited to do the same in Texas. And here we go we ,now have open data for Texas available at Texas.Gov and we are trying to execute an event similar to Apps for Democracy. This event focuses in involving citizens for developing wide variety of apps leveraging the open data sets available with Texas government agencies. Unedollar is all excited to pursue this event as is the motto of the company to reduce money spent on technology using better process, technology and available free resources and here we are again “Trying to save every dollar we can”.
A brief over of this event:
We would be coordinating with Gov agencies, local bodies supporting open source, many other technical support groups to organize a Dev Camp and leverage the developers talent to bring out the best apps (mobile, web). This is a contest which has reward of money and fame. The top winners choosen by the user polls and elected judges will be awarded the cash prizes in public and the fame received in participation is invaluable. We encourage all the developers out their to get engaged in this event and Rock Apps for Texas!
Staffing Industry Map
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0, cloud, contracting
Here is the Map showing the Staffing Industry Flow and Connections.
Tags: cloud computing, staffing
Nebula Cloud By NASA
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0
Nebula is a Cloud Computing initiative developed by NASA Ames Research Center. It is a based of multiple Open Source components which include Eucalyptus an Open Source clone of Amazon AWS, LUSTRE clustering file system developed by SUN, Django Python web application framework, SOLR Search. The full architecture is explained in detailed on their website.
It would a great challenge to migrate State Government Infrastructure to Nebula or even implement similar Private Cloud Network for all the State Agencies. The biggest decision to be made is whether to integrate the multiple state departments Vertically as per the business processes like Employee/Workforce Management, Public Records, Infrastructure Management, Vendor Management, Customer Management, RFP Management etc, into a single cloud using a SaaS based application as per their vertical or to push all the applications for each individual State in to their own Private Cloud forming a Network connecting Private Cloud of each State.
The adoption of Cloud Computing by the Govt. is the most challenging as the worlds largest systems will be going a major shift. The transition of this phase would lead us to the next big technology change in the world and even more innovative contributions from the industry.
Vivek Kundra on Open Goverment and Cloud
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0
Vivek Kundra (CIO, US) shares his great vision for Govt Infrastructure to integrate data, involve citizens, create transparency. He compares typical Govt. Contracting model to the new way of using public talent and open data management saving millions of dollars. Very soon we would be seeing a great shift of outsourced Govt. Projects from the Big Chaps like IBM, ACS, Accenture, Deloitte to open source communities and individual citizens. This could blow off similar to the market of iPhone and Facebook application pouring down. Here is a great opportunity of the Open Source community to participate and contribute their efforts for the country.
Here is a video which show the Vivek Kundra speaking on Govt Infrastructure, Gov2.0, open data, data.gov, IT Dashboard to track the current contracts and the assigned vendors.
Personal Democracy
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0
Personal Democracy Forum is serving as a rendezvous for politics and technologists. This forum encourages citizen participation for the CHANGE. They share a great information on the current changes and technology trends with their application into the Government Infrastructure. This moment is a opportunity for everyone out there who has an idea to save Tax Dollar in any means and provide a great value to the country. We UNEDOLLAR believe that there are Trillions of dollars which are spent on processes and procedures with in the Govt. Processing for only reason to run in a traditional method. The biggest challenge for the market is to change the existing policies and regulations which can give huge access to leverage citizen talent.
Vivek Kundra has already achieved a great success with the data.gov and the IT Dashboard, which in-turn gave birth to Apps for Democracy an initiative in Washington, DC yielded 47 web, iPhone and Facebook applications from residents in 30 days worth of $2,300,000 in value to the city at a cost of $50,000. This is one of the biggest example one can use to predict how the technology transformation would change the Socio-Political Society.
Here are the videos of the Personal Democracy Forum 2009, worth watching for all those who want to bring in the change. Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Information Officer, unveiled IT Spending Dashboard at Personal Democracy Forum 2009.
Tags: cloud, democracy, Gov2.0, GovTech, opensource
Technology Transition for Govt. Infrastructure
Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under Gov2.0
UNEDOLLAR is a great supporters for all the technology initiatives envisioning huge shift from 90’s tech to web3.0 phase in Govt. Information Management.
You can find the new technology transition plan by Mr. President, Barak Obama:
Here is the game plan for change with technology by Obama:
