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1 online resource (xxv, 402 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file rda |
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Theory in practice |
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Theory in practice (Sebastopol, Calif.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation. Contributions and topics include: Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure" Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data" Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?" Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule" Carl Malamud, founder of Public. Resource.Org, "By the People" Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence" Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government" Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers" Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government" Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms" Open Government editors: Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting"--The practice of using data analysis to report the news. Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A Peace Corps for Programmers; Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils; Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem; Creating a Developer Corps; Conclusion; About the Author; Chapter 2. Government As a Platform; Government As a Platform; Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth; Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve; Lesson 3: Design for Participation; A Robustness Principle for Government; Lesson 4: Learn from Your "Hackers" |
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Data Is the "Intel Inside"Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation; Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation; Lesson 7: Lead by Example; Practical Steps for Government Agencies; About the Author; Chapter 3. By the People; About the Author; Chapter 4. The Single Point of Failure; The Closed Model of Decision Making; New Technologies and Civic Life; Participatory Democratic Theory in the Age of Networks; The Failure of Direct Democracy; The Timidity of Deliberative Democracy; Distinguishing Deliberative and Collaborative Democracy |
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The Argument for an Open and Collaborative DemocracyChallenges for Collaborative Democracy; About the Author; Chapter 5. Engineering Good Government; The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern; The First Constitution; The Stovepipe Antipattern; Order from Chaos: The Standards Reference Model; The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model; Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy; The Blob; The blob and government; Conclusion; About the Author; Chapter 6. Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement; Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way; Providing for Reuse and Innovation |
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Data Authenticity Down the LineWhy Bother with Bulk?; Conclusion; About the Authors; Chapter 7. Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence; Definitions and Assertions; The Context of Deliberation; Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet; Online Civic Deliberation; Support for Online Civic Deliberation; E-Liberate is created; Findings and Issues; Role of the Chair; Distributed Meeting Attendees; Social Environment Requirements; E-Liberate's Role; Conclusion; About the Author; Chapter 8. Open Government and Open Society; Transparency's Moment?; The Dark Side of Open Government |
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The Missing DiagnosisTargeted Transparency; A Matter of Politics; Conclusion; About the Authors; Chapter 9. "You Can Be the Eyes and Ears": Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds; Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov; "You Can Be the Eyes and Ears"; Recovery.gov Site Still Under Construction; Online Town Hall or "Participation Theater"?; Open Data and Open Government; Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?; About the Author; Chapter 10. Two-Way Street: Government with the People; Pockets of Excellence: The Goverati; GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees |
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Internet in public administration -- United States.
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Political participation -- United States.
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Transparency in government -- United States.
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Internet dans l'administration publique -- États-Unis. |
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Participation politique -- États-Unis. |
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Internet in public administration. |
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Political participation. |
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Transparency in government. |
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United States. |
| Genre |
Political Science; Social Aspects. |
| Added Author |
Lathrop, Daniel.
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Ruma, Laurel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Open government. Beijing ; Cambridge [Mass.] : O'Reilly, ©2010 9780596804350 (OCoLC)456839049 |
| ISBN |
9781449381936 |
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1449381936 |
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(pbk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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9781449388805 (electronic bk.) |
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1449388809 |
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