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Public Sector Buzz - Thursday, June 18
Thursday, June 18, 2009
President Obama
announced United We Serve
yesterday, a summer community service initiative calling on Americans to give back to their communities. The initiative's web site at
Serve.gov
makes it easy to plan a service project of your own or find ones to participate in, and its search is powered by
All for Good
, an open source aggregator of volunteer activities that Google is proud to contribute to. The initiative will be formally launched next week at the
National Conference on Volunteering and Service
. We'll be there to help show All for Good. Check out coverage of All for Good on
The Huffington Post
and
TechCrunch
, and watch the President's video below:
The Brookings Institution
released
a new paper
, "Comparing Technology Innovation in the Private and Public Sectors." The paper evaluated the websites of federal and state government organizations and compared them to a group of corporate websites, finding that, on average, corporate websites do better than government sites in terms of personalization, interactivity, and multimedia features, while public sector sites have stronger privacy policies and provide better disability access.
Sunlight Labs
announced that they
plan to bid on creating the new Recovery.gov
and involve the community in the process, open-sourcing something normally reserved to a few government contractors. You can read the
Recovery.gov Request for Proposal
or and
follow the progress of Sunlight's bid
.
Senator Chris Dodd
(D-CT) asked for feedback on health care legislation on YouTube, and received
over 500 responses
with 26,000 votes on the ideas submitted, a new high level of involvement in YouTube's
Senator of the Week
program.
techPresident
looks at the reaction
to a
State Department
official's reaching out to
Twitter
about avoiding going down for maintenance during Iranian protests.
Posted by Eric Hysen, Public Sector Intern
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