People all around the world are demanding more openness in government. They are seeking ways for citizens to be able to participate in the decisions that effect them, and for governments to be more transparent, responsive, accountable, and effective. What are the steps that governments can take?
The Alliance for Useful Evidence champions the use of evidence in social policy and practice. We are an open-access network of more than 1,800 individuals from across government, universities, charities, business and local authorities in the UK and internationally. - See more at: http://www.alliance4usefulevidence.org/#sthash.5v8aQwvx.dpuf
The Citizens Foundation is a non-profit based in Reykjavik, Iceland. The mission of the Citizens Foundation is to bring people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global effort to make governments better by promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. OGP was launched in 2011 in New York by eight governments, and overseen by a steering committee of governments and civil society organizations.
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"What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness - connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society" ..."
"The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub - so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens."
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. We are seeking new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science.
The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices.
We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action, we are a hub for the study of these technologies, and we coordinate community-based design processes locally in the Boston area, across the United States, and around the world.
Open Policy Making aims to drive up the quality of civil service advice. It encourages greater collaboration to challenge and innovate beyond conventional thinking.