Larry Lessig: Beyond Transparency, and Net Triumphalism
Plenty is being written already trying to parse, understand, and come to terms with Larry Lessig’s article “Against Transparency” in the New Republic. Ethan Zuckerman does his usual outstanding job in...
View ArticleOpen Declaration on E-government
Some folks, including Nadia El-Imam, have put together an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 that is going to be presented alongside the declaration of the European ministers at the Malmö...
View ArticleAustralian Government 2.0 Taskforce issues draft
The Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce has published a draft of its report, asking for comments before it’s submitted. The report takes “engagement” as the desideratum of e-gov, and was produced in an...
View ArticleState of the Union opened up
The White House is inviting us to talk with the President’s advisers in the runup to the State of the Union. The first is at 3:30pm EST today, on the environment. How open the conversation will be of...
View ArticleAfter press conferences, what?
After watching President Obama at the Republican Caucus, it’s clearer than ever that press conferences need to go the way of press releases. They are just too constricted for the opportunities and...
View Article[berkman] Michael Slaby on tech, politics, and freedom
Michael Slaby was Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America. His team was responsible for the technology behind the online campaign. He’s giving a Berkman lunchtime talk. NOTE 1: I’m...
View Article[berkman] [2b2k] Beth Noveck on White House open government initiatives
Beth Noveck is deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. She is giving a talk at Harvard. She begins by pointing to the citizenry’s...
View ArticleGovernment APIs rock
The FCC has launched a site for developers that provides APIsso that anyone can create apps that draw on FCC data. Heres the first one they list: “Over 1 million user speed tests were generated from...
View ArticleWhite House Innovation Fellows
The White House is announcing the White House Innovation Fellows who are going to work on five projects. Here are the projects: 1. RFP-EZ – twitter: @ProjectRFPEZ Building a prototype process for...
View ArticleInnovation at the State Dept.
I just read Revolution@State, a pretty amazing report by the Lowy Institute, an independent policy think tank, about the extent and depth of e-diplomacy initiatives at the State Department. I came away...
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