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8 Principles of Open Government Data

http://resource.org/8_principles.html

30 open government advocates gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the modern world, and through it governments now have the opportunity to better understand the needs of their citizens and citizens may participate more fully in their government. Information becomes more valuable as it is shared, less valuable as it is hoarded. Open data promotes increased civil discourse, improved public welfare, and a more efficient use of public resources. The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the eight principles, governments of the world can become more effective, transparent, and relevant to our lives.
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Government Data and the Invisible Hand

http://www.yjolt.org/11/fall/robinson-0

David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Edward W. Felten, Government Data and the Invisible Hand, 11 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 0 (2008). In order for public data to benefit from the same innovation and dynamism that characterize private parties’ use of the Internet, the federal government must reimagine its role as an information provider. Rather than struggling, as it currently does, to design sites that meet each end-user need, it should focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure that “exposes” the underlying data. Private actors, either nonprofit or commercial, are better suited to deliver government information to citizens and can constantly create and reshape the tools individuals use to find and leverage public data. The best way to ensure that the government allows private parties to compete on equal terms in the provision of government data is to require that federal websites themselves use the same open systems for accessing the underlying data as they make available to the public at large. This is a draft. Do NOT cite. A final version of this article will appear here in Fall 2008.
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Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1023485

Jerry Brito, George Mason University Mercatus Center. October 21, 2007. In order to hold government accountable for its actions, citizens must know what those actions are. To that end, they must insist that government act openly and transparently to the greatest extent possible. In the Twenty-First Century, this entails making its data available online and easy to access. If government data is made available online in useful and flexible formats, citizens will be able to utilize modern Internet tools to shed light on government activities. Such tools include mashups, which highlight hidden connections between different data sets, and crowdsourcing, which makes light work of sifting through mountains of data by focusing thousands of eyes on a particular set of data. Today, however, the state of government's online offerings is very sad indeed. Some nominally publicly available information is not online at all, and the data that is online is often not in useful formats. Government should be encouraged to release public information online in a structured, open, and searchable manner. To the extent that government does not modernize, however, we should hope that private third parties build unofficial databases and make these available in a useful form to the public.
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Tacit Governance

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18804

David Weinberger, Fellow Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School. Governance, as an explicit social structure, codified and implemented, arises when tacit governance fails. At its best, explicit governance is a response to a breakdown. It rarely restores a society to its prior, unbroken state.
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The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0

http://www.businessofgovernment.org/main/publications/grant_reports/details/index.asp?gid=291

The IBM Center for the Business of Government Publication by David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University. Dr. Wyld examines the phenomenon of blogging in the context of the larger revolutionary forces at play in the development of the second-generation Internet, where interactivity among users is key. This is also referred to as "Web 2.0." Wyld observes that blogging is growing as a tool for promoting not only online engagement of citizens and public servants, but also offline engagement. He describes blogging activities by members of Congress, governors, city mayors, and police and fire departments in which they engage directly with the public. He also describes how blogging is used within agencies to improve internal communications and speed the flow of information. Based on the experiences of the blogoneers, Wyld develops a set of lessons learned and a checklist of best practices for public managers interested in following in their footsteps. He also examines the broader social phenomenon of online social networks and how they affect not only government but also corporate interactions with citizens and customers.
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Mobilizing Information to Prevent Terrorism: Accelerating Development of a Trusted Information Sharing Environment

http://edodds.blogs.com/conmergence/2006/07/mobilizing_info.html

"We have consistently said that public trust in a network that uses personally-identifiable information can only be achieved if government-wide guidelines for information sharing and privacy protection are established after open public debate," said Zoe Baird, co-chair of the Task Force and President of the Markle Foundation.
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TFJ's EA, Open Standards and News

http://www.amto.dk/Thesis

Collection of EA Blogs, News and Open Standards
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Quantum Governance

http://www.quantumgovernance.ca/wordpress/

Institute of Public Administration of Canada's Centre for Governance Blog.
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A democracy of groups

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/noveck/index.html

Beth Noveck: In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual and the state, disregarding the collaborative nature of public life, or they remain wedded to outdated and unrealistic conceptions of deliberation
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Trust MEdia - How Real People Are Finally Being Heard

http://www.edelman.com/image/insights/content/ISwp_TrustMEdia_FINAL.pdf

In a very short time, the blogging phenomenon has drastically altered the landscape and challenged traditional tenets about the control of messaging by corporations, the media, the government, marketers and company stakeholders. The 1.0 Guide to the Blogosphere for Marketers and Company Stakeholders. By Edelman and Intelliseek. Spring 2005
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Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation

http://bowlingtogether.net/

By Stephen Coleman and John Gøtze
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Steven Clift

http://publicus.net/

Welcome. I am a public speaker, researcher, and online strategist focused on e-democracy.
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Alexandra Samuel

http://alexandrasamuel.com/blog/

Otherwise engaged
- GovBlogs and eGovBlogs - E-Democracy -

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Jason Kitcat

http://www.j-dom.org/h/f/JDOM/blog//1

e-government and e-democracy expert and consultant
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Deliberative Democracy

http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/

Describing the nascent, growing movement to embed deliberative democracy into governance at the national level.
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