Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice

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In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

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In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.

Contributions and topics include:

  • Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure"
  • Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data"
  • Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?"
  • Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule"
  • Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People"
  • Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence"
  • Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government"
  • Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers"
  • Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government"
  • Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms"

Open Government editors:

Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting" — the practice of using data analysis to report the news.

Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo.

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We’re living in a world characterized by exponential change. Most government organizations weren’t built for this world. The movement from closed to open is one of the most important ways governments can adapt to faster change. Open Government offers insight on how to get from here to there. It should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the public sector.

— William D. Eggers, Author of If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government and Government 2.0

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780596804350
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/23/2010
  • Pages: 402
  • Sales rank: 805,527
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida and Washington D.C. He was a senior researcher on the New York Times bestselling "The Buying of the President 2004" by Charles Lewis. He is a specialist in campaign finance and "computer assisted reporting," the practice of using data analysis to report the news. He writes code in Perl, Python and PHP. He was the primary architect of the data for the Center for Public Integrity's successful Lobbywatch project, which provided the first truly searchable online database of federal lobbying available to the general public. He supervised the data team that developed CPI's Power Trips investigation of Congressional junkets.

Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is the co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo. Laurel joined the company in 2005 after being an editor at various IT research/consulting firms in the Boston area. Laurel went to Union College and is a photographer and homebrewer.

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Table of Contents

ForewordPrefaceChapter 1: A Peace Corps for ProgrammersChapter 2: Government As a PlatformChapter 3: By the PeopleChapter 4: The Single Point of FailureChapter 5: Engineering Good GovernmentChapter 6: Enabling Innovation for Civic EngagementChapter 7: Online Deliberation and Civic IntelligenceChapter 8: Open Government and Open SocietyChapter 9: “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of CrowdsChapter 10: Two-Way Street: Government with the PeopleChapter 11: Citizens’ View of Open GovernmentChapter 12: After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil ServiceChapter 13: Democracy, Under EverythingChapter 14: Emergent DemocracyChapter 15: Case Study: Tweet CongressChapter 16: Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American PeopleChapter 17: Disrupting Washington’s Golden RuleChapter 18: Case Study: GovTrack.usChapter 19: Case Study: FollowTheMoney.orgChapter 20: Case Study: MAPLight.orgChapter 21: Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data SharingChapter 22: All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government DataChapter 23: Case Study: Many EyesChapter 24: My Data Can’t Tell You ThatChapter 25: When Is Transparency Useful? Chapter 26: Transparency Inside OutChapter 27: Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to GovernmentChapter 28: Toads on the Road to Open Government DataChapter 29: Open Government: The Privacy ImperativeChapter 30: Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and RealitiesChapter 31: Gov-Media-PeopleChapter 32: Open Source Software for Open Government AgenciesChapter 33: Why Open Digital Standards Matter in GovernmentChapter 34: Case Study: Utah.govMemo from President Obama on Transparency and Open GovernmentColophon

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  • Posted March 16, 2010

    TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT: IS IT REAL??

    Do you want to access the documents and proceedings of government? If you do, then this book is for you! Authors Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that will help you scrutinize and participate in government, by introducing you to 34 leading visionaries, thinkers, and practitioners:

    Matthew Burton, begins by proposing anew project to recruit top technologies into government temporarily and harness their knowledge to transform the way government information technology operates. Next, Tim O'Reilly examines how the philosophy of the open Web applies to transforming the relationships between citizens and government. Carl Malamud continues by addressing the third wave of government transformation. Then, Beth Simone Noveck tackles the issue of closed decision making and open deliberation. Next, Howard Dierking explores applying software design patterns to government. Then, Douglas Schuler proposes a new model for online discussion and decision making, molded on the famous Robert 's Rules of Order. Micah L. Sifry continues by looking at the open government promises of the Obama administration and places it in the context of broader notions that underlie the philosophy of open source technology and Web 2.0. Mark Drapeau then examines how and why those who favor open government need to provide outside pressure if those inside government who desire change are able to make it happen. Next, Brian Reich sketches out what reforms must achieve for regular citizens in order to be effective. David Eaves continues by taking a look at open government and the civil service and argues for experimentation and accepting the inevitable technological shift that is upon government. Charles Armstrong then outlines a new kind of digital democracy in which decisions bubble up from citizens rather than coming down from e-leaders. Next, Nick Schaper describes the social media strategy the Republican minority in the U.S. House uses to outfox the Democrats who control the chamber. Ellen S. Miller continues by explaining why radical transparency in government will act as a counterweight to the influence of monied interests in shaping government policy. Finally, David Fletcher takes a tour through the most transparent state in the United States and explores the history; as well as, the future of Utah.

    This most excellent book shows you why government needs to adopt open standards in its technology that eschew the lock-in from vendor-specific technologies! More importantly, if you read this book from cover to cover, you'll discover that government must adopt open source software in order to achieve true open government, and that doing so has many social, societal, and economic benefits..

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