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• in Technology
  Open Data/Open Government Tools
  Open data and open government invariably make people ask questions. How much money does it save? Where is it located? What is it doing?
  by csedev / on Jul 4, 2011
• in Technology
  Open Government is Dead, or Long Live Open Government?
  To judge from recent U.S. news reports, open government is either thriving or in the midst of an unceremonious death.
  by csedev / on Jun 27, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “open government”

 

• White House releases new #DigitalGov Strategy

  
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  The White House released a new digital government strategy “ Digital Government: Building a 21st century platform to serve the American people “, followed by a Presidential Directive . In the directive the President points out: “ The main points of the roadmap include: - data.gov is a starting point for ...
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• Sunlight Foundation: Today in Open Government 5/24/2012

  
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  Originally published on The Sunlight Foundation NEWS ROUNDUP Government A Plan for digital government:  The U.S. CTO and CIO released a digital government strategy yesterday. The strategy focuses on pushing mobile apps to improve government service delivery and allowing agencies to efficiently publish ...
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• In California, Progress On a Bill to Open Government Records

  
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• White House releases new #DigitalGov Strategy

  
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  The White House released a new digital government strategy “ Digital Government: Building a 21st century platform to serve the American people “, followed by a Presidential Directive . In the directive the President points out: “ The main points of the roadmap include: - data.gov is a starting point for ...
  4 days ago

• Why the rule change? Just follow the open meeting laws to begin with.

  
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  (IMAGE: KELO-TV screenshot) So let’s add anoth er layer of rules that the city attorney can find a way to wiggle ou t of; In the future, the City Council will have to name an employee and the action being taken against the employee. Pfeifle says going forward, city leaders intend to be as open as possible. ...
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• White House Unveils Plan to Bring Government Into the Mobile Age

  
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  The White House has unveiled its plan to bring governance into the mobile-centric twenty-first century. Dubbed the “Roadmap for a Digital Government,” the plan has two central tenets. First, It tasks federal agencies with giving citizens easier access to information and services on modern web and mobile apps. ...
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• White House Unveils Plan to Bring Government Into the Mobile Age

  
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  The White House has unveiled its plan to bring governance into the mobile-centric twenty-first century. Dubbed the “Roadmap for a Digital Government,” the plan has two central tenets. First, It tasks federal agencies with giving citizens easier access to information and services on modern web and mobile apps. ...
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• Sunlight and Allies to Department of Labor: No Website Scrubbing

  
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  Originally published on The Sunlight Foundation The following letter was just sent to the Department of Labor, on behalf of Sunlight and a number of our allies, requesting that the DOL re-post materials online that they removed when they abandoned proposed regulations regarding child labor in agriculture. As the ...
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• Sunlight Foundation: Today in Open Government 5/23/2012

  
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  Originally published on The Sunlight Foundation NEWS ROUNDUP Government April showers bring May sunshine? There is plenty of government information that should be made public. POGO picked seven action items that they want to see released this spring. ( POGO ) Cybersecurity shake up:  The White House ...
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• Roadmap for a Digital Government

  
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  By Steven VanRoekel , Chief Information Officer of the United States ( Cross-posted from White House Office of Management and Budget Blog ) When the Internet revolution arrived in the 1990s, the U.S. Government embraced this new medium to interact with the American people.  Today, what started as basic ...
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• Arizona Lethal Injection Litigation

  
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  Todays Arizona Republic reports, " Media asks to witness Arizona lethal-injection preparation ."  Its written by Michael Kiefer. Last week, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge questioned why the media had not demanded to witness how Arizona Corrections officials prepare death-row prisoners for execution, ...
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• The Idaho Lawsuit

  
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  The Complaint for Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief is available in Adobe .pdf format. " AP, news groups sue Idaho over execution access ," is the AP report, via the Idaho Press-Tribune. The Idaho Press-Tribune, along with the Associated Press and 16 other organizations, sued the state of Idaho Tuesday ...
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• 5 Western US States Shielding Part of Executions

  
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  Thats the title of an AP report written by Rebecca Boone .  Its via the Houston Chronicle and it begins todays lethal injection news. A U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters the death chamber to his or her ...
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• Montana Watchdog Blogger Event

  
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  Event will help attendees put teeth into becoming citizen watchdogs HELENA – The Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, along with  Montana Watchdog, invites all bloggers and the general public to a “citizen watchdog” event July 14 that focuses on online news and open government. The ...
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• They Never Learn.

  
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  There is an old rule in politics that states that it is not the original sin that gets politicians in trouble. It is the cover-up or lying about it that does them in. The examples that prove the rule are too numerous to mention and span the globe. This week we have another classic case [...]
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• Sunlight Foundation: Today in Open Government 5/22/2012

  
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  NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Super PACs get Congressional:  As Super PACs shift their focus to Congressional races more conservative groups continue to dominate in fundraising and spending, although Democratic groups have picked up their pace, according to new financial disclosures. ( Roll Call $) Chamber ...
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• Ottawa spends — and spends, and spends, a spends.

  
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  Originally published on David Akin’s On The Hill MPs are not in the House of Commons this week. This is a “break week” or “riding week.” It is also the kind of week when government MPs run about the country handing out cheques. I’ve been tracking these ceremonies ever since the last federal election. I ...
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• Secrecy at Public Accounts Committee Rises from 21.8% under Liberals to 32.1% Under Conservatives

  
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  My study of Parliamentary secrecy , rejuvenated by CP’s bogus numbers claiming to prove that the Martin majority was much more secretive than the Harper majority, continues. Unlike the House as a whole, committees regularly go in camera , meaning no observers may be present, and no detailed records of testimony or ...
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• Sunlight Foundation: Today in Open Government 5/21/2012

  
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  Originally published on The Sunlight Foundation NEWS ROUNDUP Government Lobbyists spending lots of time at the White House: An analysis of White House visitor logs and lobbyist registrations show that K street has a very regular presence in the Executive offices. ( Washington Post ) Public ...
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• Kicking down doors: pushing the edge of citizen engagement in government

  
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  I was in Rome last week, to hold a keynote presentation at a large government tech/innovation trade fair called ForumPA. It was a lot of fun, with a very high energy exchange between me and the audience. 18 months after my book Wikicrazia hit the bookshops, we talked in a very frank way of where the frontiers of ...
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