Over 100,000 protesters swarmed the streets of 11 cities across the country, dancing to performances by some of Israel's most popular musicians and screaming angry slogans at PM Binyamin Netanyahu.
The protests, which began as a response to the country's housing crisis, and have since spread to a host of social and economic complaints, are posing the greatest threat to Netanyahu's rule as he grapples, unsuccessfully, to quell the growing discontent.
We face many challenges today, none more urgent than the economic crisis, but with it comes an opportunity to seek new ways of governing. In San Francisco, like other cities, we are using this opportunity to engage our greatest resource, the public, to build a government that works better for all of us.
The 2010 United Nations e-Government Survey: Leveraging e-government at a time
of financial and economic crisis was completed in December 2009 and launched in
early 2010.
The public trust that is gained
through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of
government data based on open standards.