Group items tagged openness - opensociety

shared by Johann Höchtl on 16 Apr 10 - Cached

We, the citizens, through the state, pay for the production of academic books and research papers twice, first through salaries and research grants, and second through the purchase of books and journal subscriptions. This is how the the most fundamental principles of academia, to study and to share its findings, are obstructed, and its operation is made far more expensive and cumbersome.
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shared by Johann Höchtl on 15 Apr 10 - Cached

Das novellierte Gesetzt ermöglicht tatsaechlich - ein wesentlicher Fortschritt - den Zutritt der Wissenschaft zu Datenbestaenden, in denen Daten aus unterschiedlichen Erhebungen zusammengeführt wurden. Auf Inititative von Vizekanzlers Josef Pröll (Antwort-Brief als PDF-Datei zum herunterladen) wurde eine Arbeitsgruppe eingerichtet, in der in Zusammenarbeit von BKA, BMWF und Statistik Austria ein gangbarer Weg gefunden werden soll, den Anliegen der Wissenschaft nach Zugang zu den "Mikrodaten" zu ermöglichen.
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shared by Johann Höchtl on 15 Apr 10 - Cached

shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

The first edition of Apps for Democracy yielded 47 web, iPhone and Facebook apps in 30 days - a $2,300,000 value to the city at a cost of $50,000
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shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Apr 10 - Cached

A call on Transatlantic Civil Society Dialogues EU-USA is still open! The application deadline is 27 May 2010.
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shared by Johann Höchtl on 20 Apr 10 - Cached

shared by Michael Sachs on 23 Apr 10 - Cached

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.
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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."
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"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.
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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.
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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,"
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