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Hackers wanted: Mashup events target Govt data
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| Lindsay Tanner's Gov 2.0 Taskforce has spawned
| three hacker events in support of its Mashup
| Australia competition â including two hosted
| by Google Australia â as it seeks creative
| ways to use dormant public sector data.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28471/53/
Recent:
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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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
Against Transparency
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| Reformers rarely feel responsible for the bad that
| their fantastic new reform effects. Their focus is
| always on the good. The bad is someone elseâs
| problem. It may well be asking too much to imagine
| more than this. But as we see the consequences of
| changes that many of us view as good, we might
| wonder whether more good might have been done had
| more responsibility been in the mix. The music
| industry was never going to like the Internet, but
| its war against the technology might well have been
| less hysterical and self-defeating if better and
| more balanced alternatives had been pressed from
| the beginning. No one can dislike Craigslist (or
| Craig), but we all would have benefited from a
| clearer recognition of what was about to be lost.
| Internet triumphalism is not a public good.
|
| Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning
| the good that transparency creates in a wide range
| of contexts, government especially. But we should
| also recognize that the collateral consequence of
| that good need not itself be good. And if that
| collateral bad is busy certifying to the American
| public what it thinks it already knows, we should
| think carefully about how to avoid it. Sunlight may
| well be a great disinfectant. But as anyone who has
| ever waded through a swamp knows, it has other
| effects as well.
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http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/against-transparency?page=0,0
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