Doug Hadden's Blog (3)

[this is an adaptation of my blog post at http://www.freebalance.com/blog/?p=1630 but more focused on tech@state]

There has been a lot of talk about the so-called “Facebook revolutions” in the middle east. It’s created an interesting phenomenon: tension of social media and traditional…

Open systems and open government appear to be mutually inclusive. An ethos. That was the clear takeaway from the Tech@State open source conference. It's more than leveraging open source technology to enable open government. It's about a major shift towards openess in government and in software development. I believe that the software industry is in a transition towards…

Transparency is an opportunity for developing countries for governance ”leapfrog.” Government leaders in developing countries recognize the impact of good governance for economic development and prosperity. This was the subject of my unconference session at Tech@State on Saturday. Unfortunately, the projector didn't want to behave. So, I wasn't able to show some slides from two recent presentations. You can see the presentations…