The Obama administration plans to discuss with open source developers how to work better with government agencies. http://www.informationweek.com/news...
Initiatives falter because they are not based on customer’s needs and have never been prototyped to solicit feedback. http://www.ssireview.org/article...
The design thinking process is best thought of as a system of overlapping spaces rather than a sequence of orderly steps. There are three spaces to keep in mind: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. Think of inspiration as the problem or opportunity that motivates the search for solutions; ideation as the process of generating, developing, and testing ideas; and implementation as the path that leads from the project stage into people’s lives. The reason to call these spaces, rather than steps, is that they are not always undertaken sequentially. Projects may loop back through inspiration, ideation, and implementation more than once as the team refi nes its ideas and explores new directions. Not surprisingly, design thinking can feel chaotic to those doing it for the fi rst time.
- Dorai
Several governments have begun opening up data including Australia and New Zealand. These approaches mirror US data.gov http://blogs.talis.com/nodalit...