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Open Government: Beth Noveck at Transparent Text
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| I was especially pleased to hear Beth talking about bottom-up
| initiatives within government departments, not just outside.
| While she talked at some length about Netflix-style prizes for
| innovation in data visualization and sharing, she also talked
| about decidedly low-tech efforts to get input, like suggestion
| boxes in government departments. A process at the VA got 8,000
| suggestions from a department of 19,000 workers â she suggests
| that many of the key ideas for opening government may come
| from people who are already inside government departments and
| know what steps need to be taken to release critical data and
| enable more participation.
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http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/09/21/open-government-beth-noveck-at-transparent-text/
New report on sharing aid information is now open for comments
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| Weâre pleased to announce the publication of a new report,
| Unlocking the potential of aid information. The report, by the
| Open Knowledge Foundation and Aidinfo, looks at how to make
| information related to international development (i) legally
| open, (ii) technically open and (iii) easy to find.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2009/09/21/new-report-on-sharing-aid-information-is-now-open-for-comments/
Recent:
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
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| One of the signal failures of digital technology in
| recent years has been e-voting. Practically every high-
| profile attempt to switch from quaint analogue
| technologies to swish new digital ones has proved a
| complete and utter disaster. But taking a closer look at
| these failures it becomes evident that the problem is
| not so much e-voting itself, as the toxic combination of
| e-voting with black-box software.
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| The problem is quite simple. If you can't see what the
| software is doing by looking at the code, you can't
| possible trust it. And e-voting without trust is about
| as useful as the proverbial chocolate teapot.
|
| The solution is equally obvious: mandate open source
| solutions so that the code can be checked before use.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2537&blogid=14
New EU website goes live
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| The European Commission will today (21 September) launch a
| revamped version of its Europa website. After two years of
| analysis and review, the EU executive hopes its new central
| web portal will make for a simpler, more organised
| experience for EU citizens.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/new-eu-website-goes-live/article-185604
Ideas sought for open government
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| A DIY guide to becoming an MP and a database of the connections between the
| powerful could soon be created online.
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| The two ideas are among those being considered by MySociety - a charitable
| group that helps construct civic tools.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8194859.stm
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
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| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
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| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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