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Blue Dot’s Advanced Mobile 311 solution is an innovative crowd-sourcing solution for Public Sector that enables citizens to quickly and easily create non-emergency Service Requests through their Smart Phones.  Leveraging the power of Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Blue Dot has…

Before joining Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, Lewis Shepherd spent four years at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he helped usher in a new era of collaboration. In this interview, he discusses how the Institute's small team of seven is exploring the nooks…

The Virtual Earth team has just launched a new program called GoVE which lets state and local governments, municipalities, and aerial photographers share their own imagery with Microsoft and get it published on Virtual Earth. After checking out maps.live.com to verify that the imagery they have it…

Last week Tina wrote about Net Neutrality in the middle of a perfect storm of informed commentary. In an Op-Ed column for The New York Times, former Chairman of the FCC William Kennard said: “Unfortunately, the current debate in Washington is over ‘net neutrality’ — that is, should network…

So here is a subject that affects all of us. Net Neutrality. Wikepedia has some good information about the history of the subject as well. This is really a huge issue for our generation and those younger of course. The Internet has absolutely changed the way we live. In both positive ways and I…

John Edwards spoke at Gnomedex to listen to the audience and  learn more from them on how to open up the process of voting and choosing government officials.  Of course blogging and podcasting came up, but also mobile texting as well as a reality tv…