The Promise of Open Government: How data can unlock government and open it up to citizens as never before, from Governing.
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Tag Archives: transparency
Challenges for Open Government
More on the challenges for open government, from InformationWeek.
Best Recent Article: Social Networking Use Increases
“Social Networking Use Increases, But Has Yet to Transform Government,” from Government Technology. Very interesting article on how social networking is currently being used and where it is going to go.
More Open Gov Sites with Drupal?
Dries Buytaert, project lead for the Drupal open source content management system, believes Drupal will be used for many open government websites created in response to the recent White House directive.
Gov 2.0 Predictions for 2010
Social Computing Journal has 7 government 2.0 predictions for 2010, which include: self-service integration (and mashups), increased transparency and citizen involvement (due to apps), and incorporating more social media.
Governing on Open Government
White House Wants to Release More Data
The White House has asked agencies to publish data (to Data.gov) within 45 days, and:
Following the three-data-set action, each branch has to create an Open Government Webpage at http://www.[agency].gov/open to function as the “gateway” to activities in that area. The site must also include a mechanism for public feedback about the process, and government agencies must respond to the comments they receive. And within 120 days they have to publish comments on how they plan to improve their openness policies.
That’s good work!
Open Gov Challenges
Accessibility and Transparency
Discussion of Gov Transparency Movement
The policy director of the Sunlight Foundation discusses the government transparency movement.
On Security Worries with Gov 2.0
Gartner analyst Andrea DiMaio: When Security Concerns Are An Elegant Excuse Not To Tackle Government 2.0. I have to agree completely, and don’t miss this great quote:
… the crux of the matter is (1) to empower employees to access external social networks (2) in order to find useful avenues to deliver value to both their constituencies and their agencies.
Example Gov Crowdsourcing Sites
White House Website Expansion
In a follow up to the recent Drupal rollout at whitehouse.gov, the White House media team recently spoke with Drupal developers. Whitehouse.gov is working to roll out custom news feeds, user authentication, and more tagged, searchable raw data. They are also looking into releasing some of their custom code to the open source community.
Good and Bad of Gov 2.0
Analyst on the good and bad of Government 2.0, from IT Wire.
Example of Online Reporting
New web application for citizen interaction and 311, SeeClickFix allows for citizen reporting of problems and government response. They recently posted an example interaction with a citizen in Meriden, CT and the city manager.