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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”

 

• Inside The SB51 Delibrations……

  
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  (from) John Kowalko May 19, 1:00 pm With all due respect, I didn’t have to be awakened to the horrors of this poorly written and intended piece of legislation. I argued against it in the House Committee to no avail and spoke with some of the supporters, (DSEA), to attempt to alert them of its flaws. The reality ...
  4 days ago

• David Finger: Judges Are Not Merely Arbitrators In Secret, For-Pay Chancery "Trials" - "Nomenclature Cannot Override The First Amendment"

  
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  John Flaherty sent this along ~  (WSJ) Peg Brickley reports ~ Delaware Asks Appeals Court to Revive Judge-Run Arbitrations The state of Delaware is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a decision striking down as unconstitutional its practice of allowing corporate law judges to sit as ...
  4 days ago

• Open and Machine Readable as the new default for US government data

  
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  On May 9, 2013 The White House published an executive order - “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information”  essentially reaffirming the new strategies the US government agencies to share data with the public. Before we state why is this important, lets focus on what exactly open ...
  1 week ago

• State Rep. Atkins Calls Kowalkos HB 13 A "Slippery Slope"; Briggs King Compares It To A Non-Compete Clause

  
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  Bipartisan Lobbyist Reform  Bill Clears House A bill seeking to impose a waiting period on former legislators who wish to work as lobbyists has cleared the House on a contested vote. House Bill 13, sponsored by State Rep. John A. Kowalko, D-Newark South, would bar legislators from working as ...
  1 week ago

• Poll: Do We Have a Right to Privacy Online?

  
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  There is a certain balance that the government has to maintain when it comes to our privacy online. Certain law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Department of Justice might need to look at emails or private Facebook messages to catch terrorists or other criminals who inhabit digital worlds. But the ACLU ...
  1 week ago

• Citizenville. How to take the town square digital and reinvent government. Gavin Newsom.

  
  Knights on the Road — Authority: 120
  Citizenville. How to take the town square digital and reinvent government. Gavin Newsom . 2013. ISBN 9781101605813.  The author is  Lt. Governor of California and was mayor of San Francisco.  He speaks with authority and experience of the  disconnect between government (designed in the 50s) and its citizens ...
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• The Impact of Opening up Lobbying Data

  
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  We found a varied landscape when we explored what cities include in releases of lobbying data and how they release it, but one thing is clear: Disclosing and contextualizing lobbying data can have a high impact on a community. Journalists and other watchdogs who dig into municipal lobbying information have unearthed ...
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• Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data

  
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  By Todd Park , Chief Technology Officer, HHS Cross-posted from The White House Blog Editor’s note: Yesterday, the White House issued an  Executive Order  and an accompanying  Open Data Policy , as well as a series of complementary actions. According to the  press statement , “The Executive Order ...
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• There Is More To The US Open Data Policy Than Meets The Eye

  
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  On May 9, after a longer-than-expected preparation, the Open Data Policy announced as part of the US Digital Government Strategy has been issued together with an executive order signed by President Obama about Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information . As one reads the order, ...
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• White House releases open data policy

  
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  Under the new policy, agencies must build and modernize information systems in a way that "maximizes interoperability and information accessibility, maintains internal and external data asset inventories, enhances information safeguards, and clarifies information management responsibilities," says the memo.
  2 weeks ago

• Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward

  
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  Today, the White House is issuing a new Executive Order on Open Data -- one that is significantly different from the open data policies that have come before it -- reflecting Sunlights persistent call for stronger public listings of agency data, and demonstrating a new path forward for governments committing to ...
  2 weeks ago

• {young} Rewiring the States – starting in New York

  
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  Rewired State has been hosting Young Rewired State (YRS) for five years, finding and fostering children aged 18 or under driven to teach themselves how to code. YRS introduces these youth to open government data and to one another to create a worldwide community of young civic-minded people who are able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Focus on Sunlights APIs

  
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  At Sunlight were immensely proud of our community of API users and today were launching a new section of our website to learn more about them, see how others use the data and a snazzy query builder to easily see whats possible. Sunlight creates APIs to power our own tools as well as to provide infrastructure to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• DISCLOSE Act sails through Lou Correa’s Elections Committee with his support! Yay Lou.

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 485
  . Good news this week for Californians who care about clean fair elections and transparency:  SB 52, the California DISCLOSE Act, authored by Mark Leno and Jerry Hill and pushed...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Bucket List Item To Be Achieved!

  
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    I’m going to camp this weekend, and I’m as fair-skinned as they come, but sunblock is the last thing I’ll need. That’s because I’m going to the Sunlight Foundation’s Transparency Camp in Washington, D.C. Tcamp, as many call it (you can follow it on Twitter via the hashtag, #tcamp13 and its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evaluating Municipal Lobbying Data: Philadelphia

  
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  “Consistent” is not the first word one would use to describe the landscape of lobbying data released by municipalities. As revealed by our research , the formats and range of information local governments collect and disclose about lobbying activity varies quite a bit from one community context to another. After ...
  2 weeks ago

• Follow the Money, Follow the Data

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 528
  The following guest post from Martin Tisné was first published on his personal blog . Some thoughts which I hope may be helpful in advance of the ‘ follow the data ‘ hack day this week-end: The open data sector has quite successfully focused on socially-relevant information: fixing potholes a la ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Book New York

  
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  Where do your tax dollars go? New Yorkers should know where their tax dollars are going. Open Book New York is part of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s effort to promote more openness in government and give taxpayers better access to the financial workings of government. Track how the State is spending ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did Citizens United thwart the effort to overturn “Citizens United” in Washington state?

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 471
  Party politics and big money interests often work in the shadows to defeat good public policy. An intersection of these two challenges in Washington state may have played a role in the failure of an erstwhile popular resolution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does your organisation have a department of technology?

  
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  Governments around the world are slowly beginning to understand the importance of connecting citizens both with each other and with information that’s important to them.  With the open data movement gathering real pace however, the cost implications are not insignificant for governments that are already stretched ...
  3 weeks ago

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