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Breaking New Ground: Promoting Environmental and Energy Programs in Local Government

Monday, June 20th, 2011 - 12:33

Author(s):

James H. Svara

Anna Read

Evelina Moulder

The survey asked questions regarding sustainability initiatives that have been undertaken by local governments. Over 2,000 local governments responded to the survey. The survey was developed by ICMA’s Center for Sustainable Communities, the Center for Urban Innovation at Arizona State University, the Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability, and the Alliance for Innovation.

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Mike Nelson Pedde

Thanks much for sharing this! Have forwarded the link to the local government councils in my area.

Mike.

08/18/2011 - 15:06

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Florida to Become State To Watch With Switch to Medicaid Managed Care

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 - 14:20

By:

Stephen Majors

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 14:58

The GOP-controlled Florida Legislature has approved moving nearly all of the state's Medicaid recipients into a managed care system, according to the News Service of Florida.

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Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement

Friday, April 16th, 2010 - 15:43

By:

John M. Kamensky

Federal agencies recently released their Open Government Plans on how they will actively engage citizens in agency decision-making efforts. None, that I’ve seen in what I’ve read so far, are taking advantage of a growing trend to use geographic information systems (GIS) to increase citizen engagement.

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Virtual USA and Web 2.0

Friday, March 19th, 2010 - 20:42

I’ve seen a number of intersting mapping applications being developed “on the ground” that engage citizens in a collaborative efforts to provide details about their communities. The most common of these is OpenStreetMap.org, which advertises itself as an editable map of the world.

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Andrew Turner

Virtual USA and OpenStreetMap are very different things. OpenStreetMap isn't just about merging together data, it's about community engagement and citizen participation in creating and maintaining their own local data. OpenStreetMap is global and allows anyone to freely contribute, edit, update and use the geographic data.

The Virtual USA projects, while valuable, are more about building "common operating pictures" and possibly sharing out the data, although I haven't seen this happen yet.

The USGS National Map is another example of aggregating and pulling together information that has actually talked about exactly this idea of using citizen mapping and data creation as a way to have the entire nation help maintain the national map. http://cegis.usgs.gov/vgi/

03/22/2010 - 12:10

John Kamensky

Agreed! Virtual USA is developed and used by government agencies (as I understand it) and OpenStreetMap is developed and used by everyone. . . but for different levels of government and different agencies to collaborate and share information, well, that's revolutionary on its own!

Thanks for sharing the USGS link. Hadn't seen it before.

03/22/2010 - 14:16

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What Does a 21st Century Government Look Like?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 - 13:28

Senator Obama says we need to move from a 20th century government to a 21st century government. Like Senator McCain, he is calling for a program-by-program review of the existing government. But neither of them paint a picture of what a 21st century government might look like.

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Norman M.Macdonald

An excellent example of a large effort that uses collaborative governance is the organization that handles wild fire and forest fire. I believe in collaborative governance because I have used it on a smaller scale in reinvention labs that are still alive and well and constantly changing. A word of caution: the lines of busines -- if they are internal to an organization -- have been known to become electronic stove pipes.

10/15/2008 - 12:02

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