Looks like NY State is making it easier for citizens to connect with the CIO and Office of Technology. If you’ve ever wanted to be Facebook friends with New York, or see their “tweets”, you now can. This effort is certainly in the spirit of President Obama’s goals of transparency, and Empire 2.0 has launched [...]
Continue Reading →Socrata was recently featured on ABC News’ Ahead of the Curve – check out Kevin’s interview in the video. View the video In the video Kevin walks through how we are making data social and understandable by a non-technical audience. To interact with the bird strike dataset that he references in the video, view the [...]
Continue Reading →Source: ABC News – Ahead of the Curve
CEO Kevin Merritt says the Web site makes data.gov easier to understand.
Continue Reading →Data is decidedly intended to be either private or public. If your data is private, you want very much to keep it that way and you’ll go to great lengths to ensure the data’s privacy. Just ask the leadership team at Twitter how they feel about their strategic notes being leaked to TechCrunch and laid [...]
Continue Reading →Source: San Jose Mercury News
When President Barack Obama held the first online town hall, the White House used Google Moderator to sort questions and allow the public to vote on their popularity. Backers of legalizing marijuana in effect stuffed the ballot box, forcing pot questions to the top of the list. “There are risks, but the new administration is willing to take some risks like that, even if it doesn’t work,” said Kevin Merritt, the CEO of Socrata, a private company and social network that uses government data…
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