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Parycek

Digital Policy Council Urges Heads of State to Lead and Follow - 0 views

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    Real Leaders Tweet, a new report from The Digital Policy Council, examines how Web 2.0 and social media strategies are helping heads of state create Government 2.0 where politics has a 'human' face and political views are communicated in ways that are transparent, open, and inclusive.
Parycek

OpenGov Tracker - 0 views

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    To satisfy the Open Government Directive agencies are soliciting your ideas on how to make them more transparent, participatory, collaborative and innovative.
Parycek

EPA Web site paving the way to transparency - 0 views

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    EPA launched its site, the Rulemaking Gateway, on Thursday to inform the public of the status of high-priority regulatory actions, such as proposals to control greenhouse gas emissions in heavy-duty vehicles and revise vehicle fuel economy labels.
Parycek

The Five Best Government Blogs and The Six Reasons Why They Work - 0 views

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    With the Obama Administration placing a high priority on the goal of transparency in the federal government these days, blogging has become a dynamic, useful tool for agency officials to communicate thoughts, opinions and information directly to the public.
Parycek

7 Social Media Takeaways for Dot-gov - 0 views

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    As we traverse to a new decade, here are seven takeaways to help small, medium and large agencies use social media to be more transparent, participatory and collaborative. Take what you can use.
Parycek

Governor's Office Social Media Usage and Policies - 0 views

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    As part of our commitment to transparency and civic engagement in government, the Office of the Governor uses several tools including: ...
Parycek

Texas Transparency - 0 views

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    Where the Money GoesYou pay for your government, and you deserve to know how it spends your money. Use the tools and information on this page to search the state check register, track state spending and see your tax dollars at work.
thinkahol *

Report: Ex-WikiLeakers to launch new Openleaks site | Privacy Inc. - CNET News - 0 views

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    WikiLeaks will soon have some competition on the whistle-blowing front. Several people who resigned from the WikiLeaks project amid conflicts with organizer Julian Assange are planning to launch a new site called Openleaks on Monday, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported today. "Our long term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistle-blowers--both in terms of technology and politics--while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects," an Openleaks organizer, who wished to remain anonymous, told the newspaper. "As a short-term goal, this is about completing the technical infrastructure and ensuring that the organization continues to be democratically governed by all its members, rather than limited to one group or individual."
Johann Höchtl

Open Data Study - New Technologies | Transparency & Accountability Initiative - 0 views

  • The report finds that 3 key groups or ‘layers’ were crucial to the successful introduction of open data. An influential and active civil society provided the ‘bottom up’ pressure for change through traditional advocacy and by setting up innovative websites demonstrating how open information could be used. Civil servants and state and federal administrators who saw open data as a way of improving efficiency provided the ‘middle layer’. Finally, high-level political leaders including Heads of States and Ministers provided the third layer.
thinkahol *

Super Congress Debt Reduction Has Little Transparency - 0 views

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    The text of the budget deal reached by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders contains few specific public disclosure provisions for the committee. The standing committees of Congress are allowed to send suggestions for ways to reduce the debt to the super committee members, but there is, as yet, no provision for the disclosure of those reports. The final report is required to be publicly disclosed upon completion, however there is no requirement that the report be placed online. There are also no official requirements for web-casting of committee meetings.
Johann Höchtl

UK open government data: the results of the official audit | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • UK open government data: the results of the official audit
  • not yet systematically assessed the costs and benefits of the Government's specific transparency initiatives
  • Government departments reckon on spending from £53,000 to £500,000 each year on just providing and publishing open data
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  • data.gov.uk was originally run by the Central Office of Information and received funding of £1.2m in 2010-11 from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. In 2011-12, the project was brought inside the Cabinet Office, and what the report calls "further engagement activity with stakeholders" increased the annual running costs to £2m
Johann Höchtl

Opening Data.Gov with a new open source version, Open Government Platform (OGPL) - Greg... - 0 views

  • The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on May 21 that Data.Gov partnering with the Government of India National Informatics Centre has produced an open source version of Data.gov
  • The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on May 21 that Data.Gov partnering with the Government of India National Informatics Centre has produced an open source version of Data.gov that is being made available today, the third anniversary of Data.gov. The open source product, called the Open Government Platform (OGPL), can be downloaded and evaluated by any national Government or state or local entity as a path toward making their data open and transparent
  • The Open Government Platform (OGPL) is a growing set of open source, open government platform code that allows any city, organization, or government to create an open data site
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    data.gov is now an open source stack
Johann Höchtl

EU Calendar - The European Commission proposes an open data strategy - 0 views

  • The European Commission will adopt an Open Data Strategy - a set of measures aimed at increasing government transparency and creating a €32 billion a year market for public data.
Johann Höchtl

KoopTech » Innovation » CDU-Politiker für Open Data - 0 views

  • CDU-Politiker Michael Kretschmer versucht aus der starren Abwehrhaltung der Union in der Internetpolitik auszubrechen
  • Die Politik müsste weniger Regulierung und mehr Freiräume für Innovation schaffen – sowie flexible Förderinstrumente für kleine und kleinste Software-Unternehmen und zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen im Bereich IT.
  • Wenn Kretschmer es schaffen könnte, die Union für ein data.gov.de zu bewegen, wäre aber auch schon viel gewonnen.
Johann Höchtl

What does Government 2.0 look like? - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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    Gov 2.0 is about changing the status quo of government in various ways. What are those ways? They include but are not necessarily limited to: innovation by government, transparency of its processes, collaboration among its members, and participation of citizens.
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    What is Government 2.0?
Johann Höchtl

Gemeinsames-Positionspapier-Perspektiven-deutscher-Netzpolitik.pdf (application/pdf Obj... - 0 views

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    Positionspapier zur dritten Dialogveranstaltung der Perspektiven deutscher Netzpolitik jetzt mit Open Data und Open Access
Johann Höchtl

THE OPEN DECLARATION « Co-creating an open declaration on public services 2.0 - 0 views

  • An Open Declaration on European Public Services
  • The needs of today’s society are too complex to be met by government alone. While traditional government policies sought to automate public services and encourage self-service, the biggest impact of the web will be in improving services through collaboration, transparency and knowledge-sharing.
Johann Höchtl

Hacker News | Facebook is not worth $33 billion - 0 views

  • The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.
  • The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.
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    Lenghty read Spolsky vs. dhh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky about the valuation of Facebook and SNS
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