In the Washington Monthly , Charles Homans has an extensive investigation into the early efforts, both in Washington D.C. as a city, and on the government level after the high profile nomination (by Obama) of open government advocate Vivek Kundera. Now you can get a comparable analysis at Freerisk.org, a site launched by a pair of amateur programmers after last fall’s financial meltdown (which Moody’s failed to anticipate), where open-source How well is data-driven democracy doing? Here are the conclusions only: “Something unprecedented has happened

Below is a response from Matt Cooperrider , organizer of the Open Government NYC meetup group to a previous article about open cities . “While Mayor Bloomberg’s recent initiatives are innovative and forward-looking, perhaps his most valuable role for the openness movement in New York CIty has been as a foil. In a way, this has been beneficial to the open government and open data movements, as it forces them to make a strong case and build real political support. This is a mayor so strong that he steamrolled the City Council into approving a term limits extension so that he could run for a third term, and then made the 2009 mayoral race a formality by massively outspending his opponents.

The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System Everyone is talking a lot about open government and transparency these days. What we really want (or what I really want anyway) is not simply government transparency, but an open civic system - a civic system that operates, and flourishes, as a fully open system, for whatever level we happen to be talking about - federal, state, city, neighborhood, whatever. Posted by John Geraci on O’Reilly Radar It’s exhilarating stuff, and it’s even more exciting to see governments get behind it, creating sites

Thanks to the generous support of the National Defense University in Washington DC and some hard work by Neil Olonoff, Gretchen Schlag, Jeff Alexander, Janet Scheitle, Janice Herd and others, we’ll be offering a free workshop on “Managing and Leveraging Expertise” on November 10, from 8am to 2pm. Do circulate this notice among any Washington DC colleagues you think might be interested. Full workshop details are given below. There is limited capacity (25 max) so participation is by first come first served registrations to Dr Brenda Roth at RothB@ndu.edu .

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Later that day New Yorker writer and former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll weighed in with some compelling math: “If the Washington Post had a $2 billion endoment, it would be able to fund a very healthy newsroom. Tags: P2P Business Models Crowdsourcing Peer Property (IP) Open Models medi Crowdsourcing expert Jeff Howe examines the crisis of journalism , now that the funding for a advertising-based print model is drying up. He starts by re-iterating the stillborn dreams for micropayment, then reviews proposals for creating “endownments” (the

For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. The incoming administration provides a very cool "Open for Questions " feature which allows people to submit and vote for questions that are then answered by the transition team. An example of using a wiki to try to expand collaboration is the "Global Development Commons" wiki we at Forum One launched to explore opening up sharing/access in international development information. (add The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. (This

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through an open process: Beginning today, we will have a brainstorming session for suggesting ideas for the open government recommendations. These three phases will build upon one another and inform the crafting of recommendations on open government. There’s also an innovations gallery showing “innovations and innovators across the Government who are already translating In January US President Barack Obama circulated memos to public agencies saying Government should be transparent, participatory, collaborative. Yesterday senior adviser Valerie Jarrett