Post Tagged with: "open government"
Calling Food & Tech Innovators to the Health Datapalooza
This June 5, the best and brightest of the food tech community are being invited to showcase your work at the third annual Health Data Palooza. Hosted by The Health Health Data Initiative, the event brings together over 1,000 health data stakeholders and showcases how health data can create services, tools and applications to support more informed decision-making by patients, health care systems, and community officials
Redesigning USDA Online
You may have noticed a fresh, new look on USDA.gov last night – we’re excited to announce the launch of our redesigned website! Our redesign team has been hard at work designing a new look and feel that should make navigating our site more user-friendly and intuitive. In support of our One USDA approach, we strive to provide a consistent, high value online experience that focuses on our users’ top tasks and requests. One USDA unifies our mission areas and offices to provide all of our stakeholders with a cutting-edge experience that empowers education, decision-making and action
iTools: Building a System; Part 2 – The Data Source
Yesterday, in part 1, I outlined how quickly the world of technology is changing. John set the bar by accessing open source code from Google and said: “Look, the map is up. Now what are we going to do with it?” It was now time for some programming tricks. How were we going to store
USDA Director of Web Communications Amanda Eamich on USDA2.0
Meet Amanda Eamich, Director of Web Communications for the USDA Office of Communications. In December 2009, the White House issued the Open Government Directive, requiring federal agencies to make important data available online and to increase transparency, participation, and collaboration. Eamich is changing the way the administration communicates with citizens by leveraging various new media tools. The USDA
Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic Recipe Search
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine technology to create a more intelligent recipe search engine, similar to Amazon
Why I Write About Food: Creating Community
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today? I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-site discussion hosted by Food Editor Nicola Twilley, in honor of the re-launch of GOOD magazine’s food section. It’s funny, in a million
8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),
Food Sprout: Mapping The Food Supply Chain
Where does your food come from? The answer is more difficult than you might imagine. Thankfully, a growing number of tech savvy entrepreneurs are leveraging their Web2.0 acumen and the open government data movement to address the problem. Food Sprout is a new, data-driven website that is mapping the food supply chain to improve transparency about
CEO Brian Witlin On ShopWell & Their Data Driven Business Model
If you’ve been following this blog, you may have noticed that many of the startups I’ve interviewed are data-driven. Why? Because addressing even the seemingly most basic food system challenges, such as what to eat, requires the management of large amounts of data. I’ve spent the last eleven months speaking with people about ways t0
2010 Food+Tech Highlights
What a year for food and tech! It has been truly wonderful getting to know all of you over the past couple of months. I can’t wait to connect with more of you at the events (hackathons, classes, and nerdy tech dinners) that are in the works for 2011. Two weeks ago, my friend Charlie
And How!: Open Sourcing Food+Tech’s Business Plan
Last week I introduced Simon Sinek’s golden circle – which shows that successful innovators start from a clear conviction or purpose that inspires belief and loyalty. The purpose of Food+Tech Connect is to connect innovators that are empowering better decision-making throughout the Food System. Moving out on Sinek’s Golden Circle the next question is HOW?
Hacking For Social Good — Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System
It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven, there was a bustle of energy as developers, designers, statisticians, urban farmers, public officials, and researchers from across the city gathered for the
Initial Data Posting and the Food+Tech Hackathon
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this site, but thanks to the Food+Tech Hackathon I’ve taken the time to really think about how the data and tools I’m building should evolve. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to email me at ewpatton [at] gmail [dot] com so we
Open Data + Food Ontology+ Semantic Web Primer
Thank you so much to everyone who came out yesterday for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon! I will be covering all of the interesting people, projects, and outcomes from the event over the next week, but wanted to get you started with this awesome video. We were extremely lucky to have Dominic DiFranzo join us for
Semantic Web Meets Food Web: Hacking on Open Food System Data
This Saturday December 5, food enthusiasts of all kinds including hackers, urban farmers, restauranteurs, designers, and public figures, will come together to hack on open food system data as part of the International Open Data Hackathon Day. I am thrilled to share that Dominic DiFranzo, one of the data.gov architects, will be joining us and
