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Top 10 Polls taken in 2009 - Moderate is the theme
ZDNet Government —
Authority: 128
2009, end of the first decade of the 21st century. Here are some interesting vote tabulations from polls Ive taken. The polls listed have a minimum of 100 submissions.21 hours ago -
Guv’s office releases no info on outgoing appointees
New Mexico Independent —
Authority: 584
Gov. Bill Richardson’s office formally responded to my request for information about the 59 political appointees who are losing their jobs today and – surprise, surprise – the response included no information about those people who are losing their jobs. As happened late Wednesday in its response to The ...21 hours ago -
What If Good Old Freedom of Information Was Better Than Open Data?
Andrea DiMaio —
Authority: 549
Today I met the deputy commissioner in an Indian municipality and we discussed about how e-government strategies and priorities are evolving, and of course we touched upon open government. He told me that he had spent two hours prior to our meeting dealing with a FOIA request (Freedom of Information is called Right ...22 hours ago -
Gauging open government: What do you want to see on the White Houses newest dashboard?
techPresident —
Authority: 574
If theres one thing that is coming to be a hallmark of the Obama approach to managing government, it may well be this: dashboards. A favorite of the modern business world, computer-based dashboards aim to give executives a glimpse at whether his or her organizations constituent parts are working together to form a ...23 hours ago -
Take the Reins
Electric City Weblog —
Authority: 142
The Tribune has a piece this morning about the City Commission’s decision to reappoint two ECP Board members to new terms. While I agree with Mayor Stebbins that the Commission still has a responsibility to perform its duties, these are controversial appointments that can wait a month with no ill effect. ...1 day ago -
Does Open Government Data Have an Expiry Date?
Andrea DiMaio —
Authority: 549
With all this discussions on pros and cons of open government data, it occurred to me that I have not seen any reference to how time-sensitive data may be. The US Open Government Directive recites: Timely publication of information is an essential component of transparency. Delays should not be viewed as an ...1 day ago -
OpenID Ends 2009 With 1 Billion Users
Family Learning Center —
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Take part in creating a more open government!
District Dispatch —
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Have you navigated through USA.gov and wished you had some way to improve the website? Well, now is your chance! USA.gov is giving everyone the opportunity to comment on changes they would like to see to this important U.S. government web portal through its new site, Your Voice Matters . This website was created to ...1 day ago -
My Unfinished Business Talk in Toronto
eaves.ca —
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Im really pleased to share that Ill be giving a talk at the Ontario College of Art & Design this January 14th, 2010. The talk is one Ive been giving for government officials a fair bit of late - it is on how technology, open methodologies and social change are creating powerful pressures for reform within our ...1 day ago -
The Growth of Civic Apps
....::: VOX POPULI :::.... —
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A pretty good indicator of the growth in the number of “civic applications” can be seen in the creation of some new application directories. City-Go-Round is a really nice site that pulls together dozens of applications that relate to travel and transit systems. It lets users enter a zip code so they can ...2 days ago -
Gordon Brown on Opening up Government Data
The Wardman Wire —
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This is useful Chapter and Verse if you need to "persuade" politicians to come out in support of Open Data. The Prime Minister delivered a speech on Smarter Government, in London on 7 December 2009. The transcript is here . "And I can announce today that we will actively publish all public services performance ...2 days ago -
White House Open Government Directive Builds Transparency
CafeSentido.com —
Authority: 136
Barack Obama’s campaign for the United States Senate, in 2004, was driven by a clear moral commitment to the need to make government more open and more accountable to the people. His record of work in state government to tackle predatory lending, corruption and ethics conflicts, helped make him a national figure ...2 days ago -
NYC Showcases Favorite Homegrown Apps
Mashable! —
Authority: 856
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, there were a number of projects (and subsequent IPOs) dedicated to making local government in the U.S. more accessible and more transparent. Unfortunately, with the bust of said IPOs, efforts for more open governments were stalled — at least in the United States. ...2 days ago -
Mastering the redaction
techPresident —
Authority: 574
Kevin Drum worries that the recent flap over that TSA manual is going to spark an unfortunate Washington backlash against searchable PDFs. TSA employees attempted to redact the sensitive manual, it seems, by drawing black boxes over the private bits in Adobe Acrobat. Unfortunately, it can be pretty trivial to ...2 days ago -
Guv may not identify appointees being laid off
New Mexico Independent —
Authority: 584
The governor’s office has until Thursday to formally respond to my request that it release information about the 59 political appointees Gov. Bill Richardson plans to lay off next month, but it’s beginning to sound like the information may not be released. Jeremy Jojola of KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported ...2 days ago -
White House front pages an invitation to comment
techPresident —
Authority: 574
Over on Technology Liberation Front, Catos Jim Harper is thrilled with a small tweak to the homepage of Whitehouse.gov that added a "Comment on Pending Legislation" option under the running list of Featured Legislation. "Kudos to the White House," blogs Harper , "for moving toward full implementation of ...3 days ago -
Obama White House makes deal to retrieve Bush-era emails (and keep tabs on its own)
techPresident —
Authority: 574
Archiving emails is no fun for anyone, but when youre the folks sitting in the white hot seat of global power known as the White House, its a necessary evil. The Obama Administration has just come to a long-awaited agreement with two Washington-based groups -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (a.k.a. CREW) and ...3 days ago -
Delaware Checkbook a Step Backwards for Transparency
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Earlier this year, the State of Delaware added a new section to its official website - the State of Delaware Online Checkbook . If you like this website then you can probably hear “I Want it That Way” playing in the background as you vigilantly prepare your desktop PC for the onset of Y2K. But while you’ve ...3 days ago -
Malamud’s “By the People”, a Compelling History of the GPO
The Command Line —
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Cory shares this video of Carl Malamud explaining the historical antecedents of his work, his earlier efforts in opening government data and the results, and the issues and hurdles that still remain. There is also a transcript of this speech that Carl Malamud gave back in September at Government 2.0. It is available ...3 days ago -
White House Office of Science & Tech Policy looks to open access to federally funded research
JoeTrippi.com —
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Last week the Office of Management and Budget released its Open Government Directive which was immediately followed by announcements from more than 20 departments of their new open government initiatives. One of the programs that was announced last week was the Public Access Forum , sponsored by the White House ...3 days ago
