gov 2 0 transparency collaboration and participation in practice presentation
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Government on RailsIs agile government an oxymoron?
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Daniel Lathrop
• Chief Data Evangelist for InvestigateWest
• Investigative Reporter
• Data journalist
• Political junky
• DB developer for Web
• Computational Journalism Consultant
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What is open government?
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• “Open” Records and Meetings
• Most reforms in 1910s (progressive era) or 1970s (post-Watergate)
• Everything is after-the-fact
• Consumer model of citizenship
• Government only releases requested info
Open Government 1.0
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• Professional journalists monitor
• Professional lobbyists represent interests
• Professional policy makers draft policies
• Professional politicos run campaigns
• Professional politicians serve in office
• Professional PRs spin everything
Professional Citizenship
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Who does 1.0 empower?
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Politicians
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Contractors
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Media titans
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The rich
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Bureaucrats
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Open Government 2.0
• Participation is in real time
• Data are released in real-time
• Public involved in decision making
• Asynchronous
• Anyone can participate
• Transparent
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The age of the amateurs
• Bloggers monitor
• Interest groups go grassroots
• Wiki-policy making
• Campaigns are social networks
• Incumbency is less powerful
• People tell their own stories
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Who does Gov 2.0 empower?
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Digitally savvy
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You
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Challenges
• MSM used to fight for OG, now it’s broke
• Policymakers will be happy to create Potemkin openness
• The digital divide is nothing to laugh at
• Politics is a dirty business
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What can I do?
Build an App
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What can I do?
Analyze the data
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photo by Scott Eklund/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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What can I do?
Attend #Gov20BOF
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What can I do?
Buy Open Government when O’Reilly publishes it
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Photo of Rupert Murdoch courtesy of World Economic Forum on flickr
Photo of the Bill courtesy of World Economic Forum on flickr
Photo of bureaucrats used without permission from the Ocala Star Banner
Photo of Beth Noveck, Jay Rosen and David G. Post courtesy of Joi on flickr
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Daniel Lathrop
206.718.0349
http://www.linkstainedwretch.com
http://invw.org
Tuesday, May 5, 2009