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Parycek

The History of Transparency - 3 views

blog.sunlightfoundation.com/...the-people-in-the-18th-century

transparency opengov opendata participation

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  • Parycek on 24 Mar 10
     
    Opening the Channels of Information to the People in the 18th Century - Making Government Transparent and Accountable - Sunlight Foundation Blog
Johann Höchtl

Study links online transparency efforts, trust in government - Nextgov - 0 views

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transparency study value USA

shared by Johann Höchtl on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The first-ever quantitative assessment of online open government efforts has concluded that the perceived transparency of federal Web sites drives trust in government.
  • The longstanding approach to quantifying transparency has been, "well let's measure how much data they put out there," said Larry Freed, ForeSee Results' president and chief executive officer. "To me, that's not measuring transparency. That may be measuring confusion."
  • "If citizens find e-government transparent, they are more likely to return to the site, recommend it, and use it instead of a more costly channel," the study found. "They even express more trust in the government agency."
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  • Citizens who believe a site is highly transparent are 46 percent more likely to trust the overall government, 49 percent more likely to use the site as a primary resource and 37 percent more likely to return to the site, according to the study.
  • McClure also noted that a site's perceived transparency can save the government money by encouraging citizens to access services online, rather than through less efficient channels.
  • Other departments that want to make their sites more transparent "should stand firm when those at the helm pressure them to ignore what the audience wants, and instead design for the internal audience,"
thinkahol *

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? | Rolling Stone Politics - 0 views

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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? | Rolling Stone Politics

shared by thinkahol * on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 18 Aug 11
     
    Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file - "Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?" No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.
Johann Höchtl

Government proposes open data 'principles' - 0 views

www.information-age.com/...ses-open-data-principles.thtml

UK cabinet open data principles proposal

shared by Johann Höchtl on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The UK government has compiled a list of 'principles' regarding its open data initiative, and is calling on the public to provide comments and feedback.
Johann Höchtl

Open 311 - 0 views

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open311 JSON XML API open data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized technology for location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311 systems that many cities in North America offer.
Johann Höchtl

Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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gov2.0 datasf open government

shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 
  • Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
  • Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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  • 1) what data should the government share and 2) how does data influence the public sphere
  • The optimists decry the modern instantiations of bureaucracy and policy in which democratic governments operate as the source of democratic ills and support the normative idea of an informed and engaged public.  Pessimists counter that the normative model of democracy most accepted in the literature is a novel construction that is not grounded in the natural behavior of citizens.
  • The innocence of Americans is either explained as a rational choice under the principle of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957) or explained as something inherent in the lack of mental sophistication in humans.
  • Government 2.0 attempts to correct the problems of information diffusion by assuming that people are simply unable or unwilling to find information in the offline world.  If the barriers to information acquisition are lowered then, the theory goes, people will be more likely to find, synthesize and use information in decision-making processes.
  • Feedback loops: Who will be active in these loops? How will the public respond? 
  • People usually think about explicit citizen participation, but some of the most pwrful Web 2.0 tools aren't about that: it's about ppl who are participating w/o knowing they are participating. Google is actually one of the great engines of harnessing participation, anyone who clicks on a link is participating, a link is a vote, meaning hidden in something they're doing already. Wikipedia isn't the only place where people are contributing.
  • The amount of data being shared/collected about people is growing exponentially, old notions of privacy need to be replaed by ideas of visibility and control: give more control over who gets to see it. We are better off with more visibility and control than stopping people from collecting data. The data is incredibly useful, applicaitons depend on data, people willingly giving up that privacy about where they are all the time.
  • many programs go wrong, generically, (what worries me) government is still very much an insider's game, we have not yet really built a system that allows real participation
  • Another gov 2.0 observation: it's very hard for a government agency to start over, it's not like private sector, where companies with bad ideas go out of business. Government agencies don't go out of business. (consumers benefit from newspapers going out of business) We don't have creative destruction in gov't, the basic machinery of it just gets bigger and more entrenched. Need to figure out how to start over: what not to do
  • The toughest part about Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, etc, might be the role of management. It used to be about defining the outcome and monitoring the progress towards that outcome. In Web 2.0 you don't know what that outcome is, it's a huge leap of faith, and takes a tremendous amount of adjusting to that approach. Do we need a different set of metrics? Yes. Media is intersecting with technology, technology is a new channel for media, even Hollywood is changing: oh my goodness, we have to create entirely new financial models!
  • "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." It's a cultural issue here, people are stuck in the past and we need a new wave of innovators or we should just expect slow results.
Parycek

5 Important E-Commerce Themes for 2010 - 0 views

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ecommerce socialmedia strategy

shared by Parycek on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • 1: Focus on Growth and Existing Customers, Not New Ones
  • 2: Tie your Channels Together
  • 3: Mobile is Coming
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  • 4: Focus on Form as Well as Function
  • Watch this YouTube video to learn more
  • 5: Tweaks, not Wide Spread Overhauls
Parycek

Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - 0 views

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twitter socialmedia strategy umair

shared by Parycek on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 03 Apr 10
     
    Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
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