Enchaning Access to Government
On October 28th, we will come together for CityCamp Colorado. The theme of this years camp is “Enhancing Access to Government”.
We have created this forum to collect your ideas for topics or problems that face your city that you want solved. If you have something you’d like to present submit those ideas as well. You can also vote for ideas that you think are important or interesting.
This is your chance to get creative, have fun, and begin the sharing now . . .
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Mobile Apps vs Mobile Websites
What should government be creating Mobile Web sites or Apps for mobile platforms (i.e. iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows and etc.)?
16 votes -
Open Data and Licensing
How should government data and information be licensed? Public domain? Creative Commons? Attribution? Share-alike?
16 votes -
Launch a data catalog using OpenColorado.org
Open source web front ends are now available for opencolorado.org (PHP & .NET - http://goo.gl/jzRza). Learn how your organization can quickly get online with an open data catalog that integrates with OpenColorado.org.
16 votes -
Sustainable Collaboration
How can a city, state, or govt agency create a sustainable citizen collaboration program for new policies, laws, regulations?
14 votes -
Promote the use of the Local Directive
Let's come up with a plan to spread the word about the open data directive and an action plan to get it implemented across Colorado
14 votes -
Recruiting and retaining staff
How does government recruit and retain the most qualified staff? What are the alternatives? What needs to change?
13 votes -
Shared Service Data
How can we mirror international efforts to share more service data and allow citizens to always have a one-stop-shop?
13 votes -
Access and Privacy
How do we create an open transparent government and protect personal privacy? What impact will the release of data have on privacy?
12 votes -
High-value Data
What data do citizens want and need most? How do governments know (open records/FOIA requests, anecdotes)? How should governments make the data accessible?
12 votes -
Crowd Sourcing: Best practices and techniques
How can governments use crowd sourcing technology? Other agencies who have used crowd sourcing help us get started...
12 votes -
Digital Divide
With the continual shift to online services, what can governments do to expand Internet access and educate citizens on using online services?
11 votes -
Apps for Colorado Contest
Let's come up with a plan to promote the use of the data on the site and gain momentum
11 votes -
Revenue
How can municipalities, state agencies, state governments increase revenues? Budget cuts have been stretched as far as they can go. Without additional revenue, services are in peril.
9 votes -
Improve Communications
Governments write excessively (white papers, Web content, forms, instructions, etc.) and the readibility and quality of govt publications is sometimes questionable. How can governments improve their communications? Plain writing; a personal, informal style; employ professional writes; create citizen review groups; etc?
5 votes -
Government as the Platform and Promoting Successes
At the Code for America Summit earlier this month Tim O’Reilly talked about how government should be the platform not the “vending machine that citizens shake when something is not right”. How can we leverage the experience of programs like Code for America to both create the culture change needed for open government and promote our successes?
4 votes -
Streamlining Bureaucracy
How can a city or agency reduce internal and external layers to streamline decision-making processes and be more responsive to customers?
2 votes
