Treating Employees as Legacy Systems: Gov 2.0's Worst Bug?

Oct 20, 2009

Personal Democracy Forum: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then, as the great Mahatma Gandhi said, what you've been advocating for so passionately suddenly becomes conventional wisdom -- and then you have to finally flesh out just what the heck the transformative social and political change you've been promising is actually going to lo (Read More)

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October is Open Government Manifesto Month

Oct 05, 2009

Personal Democracy Forum: The "Open Government Directive" that Barack Obama ordered up on his first full day in the Oval Office is, reports NextGov's Aliya Sternstein, almost ready to drop. On January 21st, Obama called on OMB to come up with something concrete for the President to tell the dozens of federal agencies how they can satisfy his call to (Read More)

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White House Takes Huge Step Toward Transparency

Sep 04, 2009

Sunlight Foundation: Early this morning, the White House took a huge step toward a more transparent government by announcing a historic new policy to voluntarily disclose White House visitor access records.  Each month, records of visitors from the previous 90-120 days will be made available online.From the President’s statement:For the first t (Read More)

Kicking off Sunlight’s Transparency Camp West

Aug 08, 2009

Sunlight Foundation: I’m sitting here in building 40 at the GooglePlex in Mountain View and watching some of the best minds in technology, politics, media, and citizen engagement walk in the door to register for Transparency Camp West.http://transparencycamp.orgBehind me is Sunlight board member Esther Dyson, Google’s Open Source lead Chris DiB (Read More)

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Clearing the Cache: A Mob for Justice

Jul 17, 2009

Personal Democracy Forum: Flash mobs are happening today in DC in support of Iran protesters. Not to harsh on pro-democracy civic action or anything, but if you announce via press release doesn't it lose some of that flash mob magic?The photo above is from 2007 "Thriller for Peace" flash mob in San Francisco. Somehow seemed appropriate. (Photo by al (Read More)

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Twerminated

Jun 26, 2009

Personal Democracy Forum: So, the Washington Post apparently brought to the attention of DC Mayor Adrian Fenty's office a stream of impolitic Twitter postings made by a District government summer employee in which the contractor called "ghetto" the Anacostia area he was serving as part of the Summer Youth Employment Program. The staffer was subseque (Read More)

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Obama's New Road Rules May Fall Short

Jun 17, 2009

washingtonpost.com - White House Watch -- News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration: Let's start with the basics: It's a good thing that President Obama is proposing new regulations for the financial industry. After five months spent untangling a massive pile-up in the financial industry and patching up the wounded, it's entirely appropriate -- necessary, really -- that he establish some new rules of the ro (Read More)

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Federal City Digest

Feb 02, 2009

washingtonpost.com - In The Loop: L'état, c'est moi, Louis XIV reputedly said. But here in Washington, the state is just us, trudging through sleet on foot, getting jostled on the MARC, cursing congestion on I-66 on the daily commute into the gleaming boxes of the federal city. . (Read More)

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Citizen-Government Relationships

Aug 16, 2008

Submitted by David Stephenson: Jon Udell's podcast w/ me about public data and transparent gov. (Read More)

Gov 2.0 Resource Center

Aug 12, 2008

Government 2.0: Recent Changes: Creator: Anthony WilliamsNew Paradigm is compiling a public resource center as part of our ongoing Government 2.0 Investigation. We're looking for Gov 2.0 case studies, research papers, websites, research centers, and other resources. Please add your own suggestions below. Feel free to describe the resource, but please lim (Read More)

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Win £20,000!

Jul 31, 2008

Submitted by David Stephenson: BBC segment dealing w/ the UK's "Show Us a Better Way" competition. I believe this competition will give the public data field a huge boost: there's nothing like cash prizes & public recognition to get people involved, while the media attention will give it further visibility. (Read More)

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