Some important evidence supporting transparency as key features of e-government:
“The Plan calls for citizen engagement in the work of federal agencies
and demonstrates respect for the intelligence and expertise of the
American people. He calls for opening up the closed practices of
government and using new technology to enable genuine citizen
participation and engagement in our democracy.”
Cairns Blog: Barack Obama Unveils Unprecedented Plan for Open Government
February 28, 2008 at 11:49 am |
Hi David
I hear you’ve had a good workshop over the last few days!
Re: transparency – if you have’nt seen it arleady you may be interested in the papers from Archon Jung at the Kennedy School of Gov, Harvard. The most recent one on Archon’s site is about how traditional types of transparency influence probity and governance but from emails with Archon I know that they are just starting to look at more e-gov type transparency such as reputations, citizen use of data etc.
February 28, 2008 at 11:06 pm |
Here’s what I’m doing: I am requesting that my contracts include a clause whereby the materials generated by my activities be released under Creative Commons – Attribution – Noncommercial 2.5.
http://www.cottica.net/2008/02/28/il-ministero-dello-sviluppo-in-creative-commons/
February 29, 2008 at 7:58 am |
Paul
thanks for this. I am painfully aware transparency has a large literature, which I mostly ignore. So thanks for the hint.
This blog aims to understand if transparency could be a defining feature of future e-government, just like “putting services online” has been for the previous period.
I am planning to address the issue “what is new now” on transparency in one of the next posts.
Thanks a lot! Look forward to further cooperation.
david
February 29, 2008 at 8:09 am |
Grazie Alberto.
that looks like a very good idea. I checked and CC2.5 implies “free to share”. So it enhances transparency.
Did you have any problem in obtaining it? Did they realize the implications, or just overlooked the “free to share”?
March 9, 2009 at 9:53 pm |
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