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2012 Gov 2.0, Open Government and Open Data Events Calendar

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Since I heard that last year’s Gov 2.0 and Open Government Events Calendar was useful to the broader community, here’s this year’s version. There will be many other places around the globe for people to gather, talk and learn about Gov 2.0 in 2012 — just take a look through the many Govloop event listings. There will be any number of citizen-generated unconferences and hackathons, where the attendees generate the program. They’ll include CityCamps, BarCamps, PodCamps or MobileCamps. Check out the CityCamp calendar to find one near you and keep an eye out for CityCamp meetups in February.

The following listings are by no means comprehensive but should serve as a starting point if you’re wondering what’s happening, when and where. If you know about more Gov 2.0 events that should be listed here, please let me know at alex@oreilly.com or @digiphile.

Special note of thanks to the Intellitics 2012 conference radar and Gov 2.0 Radio calendar feed, which are both excellent resources.

Annual Open Government Partnership Meeting

April 17-18
Brasilia, Brazil
Website: http://www.opengovpartnership.org

Gov 2.0 LA

April 21
Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://www.gov20la.com

International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society

April 25–27, 2012
Venice, Italy
Website: http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/italy/icdgs/

Transparency Camp 2012

April 28–29, 2012
Greater Washington DC area
Website: http://transparencycamp.org

4th ICTs and Society-Conference 2012

May 2–4, 2012
Uppsala, Sweden
Website: http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/

International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2012 (CeDEM ’12)

May 3–4, 2012
Krems (Austria)

Open Gov West 2012 (OGW2012)

May 2012
Location TBD
Website: http://www.opengovwest.org

Digital Governance in Latin America, LASA 2012 XXX International Congress

May 23–26, 2012
San Francisco, CA
Details: http://www.certop.fr/DEL/spip.php?article2465

e-participation: International conference on youth participation in the digital society

June 4–5
2012 Berlin (Germany)
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/eParticipationYouth.html

2012 Digital Government Society Conference (dg.o 2012)

June 4–7
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

2012 American Democracy Project and The Democracy Commitment Annual Meeting

June 7–9
San Antonio, TX
Website: http://aascu.org/Meetings/adp12/

University Network for Collaborative Governance 2012 Annual Meeting

June 10–12
Syracuse, NY
Website: http://www.policyconsensus.org/events/uncg_2012.html


Personal Democracy Forum

June 11–12
New York, NY
Website: http://personaldemocracy.com

12th European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2012)

June 14–15
Barcelona (Spain)

25th Bled eConference

June 17–20, 2012
Bled (Slovenia)
Website: http://www.bledconference.org


International Open Government Data Conference

July 10-12
World Bank, DC
Website: http://www.data.gov/communities/conference

The Democracy Imperative (TDI) National Conference

July 18–21, 2012
Boston, MA
Website: http://unh.edu/democracy/

Frontiers of Democracy

July 19–21
Boston, MA
Website: http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/?pid=1096

IADIS International Conference: e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice

July 21–23
Lisbon, Portugal
Website: http://www.edemocracy-conf.org

International Conference on Electronic Democracy

September 3–7
Vienna, Austria
Website: http://www.dexa.org/egovis2012

League of California Cities Annual Conference & Expo

September 5–7
San Diego, CA
Website: http://www.cacities.org/AC

Web of Change (WOC)

September 5–9
Cortes Island, BC, Canada
Website: http://webofchange.com/web-of-change-hollyhock

2012 NAGW National Conference

September 12–14
Kansas City, MO
Website: http://nagw.org/national-conference

67th Annual National Conference on Citizenship

September 14
Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://ncoc.net/conference

Fedtalks

October 11
Washington, DC
Website: http://fedscoop.com/events/fedtalks2012/

6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

October 22-25
Albany, New York, U.S.
Website: http://www.icegov.org/

Gov 2.0 AU

October 23-24
Website: http://www.gov2.com.au/

Involve 2012

November 13-14
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Website: http://www.profbriefings.co.uk/involve2012/

Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

November 14–16, 2012 (tentative)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Website: http://www.2012globalforum.com

Model local open government initiative gains traction in Cook County. Who’s next?

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The news that Cook County took the model open government directive drafted earlier this year into account in making their own open government policy was a real validation of the hard work of everyone involved at CityCamp Colorado and thereafter.

Belated congratulations to all involved. Like Nick Clark Judd, I think Cook County was the first municipality to adopt the framework.

Last night, it struck me that there’s quite a bit in common with the open government recommendations that councilman-at-large Bill Green recently advanced in Philadelphia.

It will be interesting to see if the model open government directive is adopted by newly elected South Orange Village mayor Alex Torpey, a new media consultant who ran on an open government and technology platform. Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, by way of contrast, appears to have drafted an open government transition plan without any such directive, although it does include key principles of open data and transparency.

If anyone hears of other cities adopting the model local open government framework, please do share.