Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Feb 8, 2010 - Political Science - 432 pages

In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Contributions and topics include:

  • Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure"
  • Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data"
  • Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?"
  • Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule"
  • Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People"
  • Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence"
  • Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government"
  • Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers"
  • Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government"
  • Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms"

Open Government editors:

Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting" -- the practice of using data analysis to report the news.

Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 A Peace Corps for Programmers
1
Chapter 2 Government As a Platform
11
Chapter 3 By the People
41
Chapter 4 The Single Point of Failure
49
Chapter 5 Engineering Good Government
71
Chapter 6 Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement
83
Chapter 7 Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence
91
Chapter 8 Open Government and Open Society
105
MAPLightorg
223
Why OpenSecretsorg Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing
233
Liberating Government Data
241
Many Eyes
249
Chapter 24 My Data Cant Tell You That
257
Chapter 25 When Is Transparency Useful?
267
Chapter 26 Transparency Inside Out
273
Chapter 27 Bringing the Web 20 Revolution to Government
289

Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds
115
Government with the People
123
Chapter 11 Citizens View of Open Government
131
Open Government and the Future of Civil Service
139
Chapter 13 Democracy Under Everything
153
Chapter 14 Emergent Democracy
167
Tweet Congress
177
Republicans Connect With the American People
183
Chapter 17 Disrupting Washingtons Golden Rule
193
GovTrackus
201
FollowTheMoneyorg
213
Chapter 28 Toads on the Road to Open Government Data
305
The Privacy Imperative
315
Promises and Realities
327
Chapter 31 GovMediaPeople
337
Chapter 32 Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies
345
Chapter 33 Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government
363
Utahgov
375
Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government
389
Index
391
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