Tech Atlas SF – Open Government 2.0! Dec 1st – 7pm24 Nov
Tech Atlas SF TV SHOW: Open Government 2.0!
In the ever increasing open source and open platform world, open government is quickly becoming a necessity. With massive amounts of data and information available, governments need help digesting to help set policy, become sustainable, provide efficient services, build community, and more. Tech Atlas SF is happy to bring together forward thinking minds on how best to capitalize on the principal of Open Government 2.0.
For our second edition, we have the privilege of featuring Ron Vinson, deputy director of the San Francisco Department of Telecommunications and Information Systems for the City of San Francisco, and Eric Kansa, from UC Berkeley’s Information School. The show will be broadcast live on SF APPEAL.
Tech Atlas SF is a monthly live, one-hour online TV show. Passionate people discuss how globally relevant issues on the Internet are changing our lives.
The show is moderated and organized by Cyrus Farivar and is hosted by pariSoma Coworking Space.
RSVP as soon as possible by email at office@parisoma.com with your name.
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More about the panelists:
Eric Kansa, UC Berkeley’s Information School – Eric C. Kansa is Executive Director of the Information and Service Design Program at the UC Berkley School of Information (I School). His primary role is to develop service design projects that bring I School students and faculty to work in collaboration with partner organizations. His research interests include efforts to enhance the accessibility and usability of research data collected in the field sciences, as well as, the impact of ubiquitous information accessibility in the consumer experience of services. Before coming to UC Berkeley, Eric was cofounder and former Executive Director, a nonprofit organization, the Alexandria Archive Institute. There he led development of Open Context, an online system for publishing primary research data collected in the field sciences. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology. Eric was awarded a doctorate in Anthropology at Harvard University in 2001. Eric is currently Convener of the Society for American Archaeology’s Digital Data Interest Group.
Ron Vinson, deputy director of the San Francisco Department of Telecommunications and Information Systems, San Francisco City. The mission for this department is to be an enterprise information and technology services organization that provides proactive leadership in the use of technology and information solutions to improve the City’s operations and service delivery. Ron will be discussing the San Francisco Initiative DataSF.org, a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The goal of DataSF is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats.
Cyrus Farivar, freelance tech journalist (NPR, PRI’s The World, CBC), author of the forthcoming “The Internet of Elsewhere” (Rutgers University Press, 2011). He regularly reports for National Public Radio, The World (WGBH/PRI/BBC), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also freelances for The Economist, Foreign Policy, Slate, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics, and Wired. In addition, he has done radio reporting for the BBC, Latino USA and has written for Tehran Bureau, Tom’s Guide, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Communications of the ACM, San Francisco, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, The San Francisco Chronicle, MuniWireless, Mobile, Playlist, Oakland, Business 2.0, The San Mateo Daily Journal, MacAddict, The Age (Australia), and The Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley independent student newspaper. He has a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He’s also survived three VfDs on Wikipedia. However, on a 4th VfD attempt in February 2007, he was, in fact, deleted. He’s still waiting for someone to add him back.
