By guest author Kelsey Foster Scandals, mismanagement, and back-room deals; the City of New Orleans has long endured a legacy of opaque policies and decision-making processes…
Before open data, there was FOIA. Beginning in 1967, the federal Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) empowered the public to request access to government documents…
To a technology director at the White House, the State of the Union is like the Superbowl. While the world is watching the President of the United States deliver an address to…
Authored by Hollie Russon Gilman, Georgia Bullen, Laurenellen McCann, and Alissa Black Open government is a critical dimension to democracy. It is also difficult. If it were…
Open government isn't a new concept. Thanks to the proliferation of the printing press, the Age of Enlightenment blasted through Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries and…
Not long ago, the working definitions of "open government" and "open data" barely overlapped. Open government was all about holding up government to public scrutiny via…
The administration in the Austrian capital, Vienna, is expanding its use of open source solutions, including on its workstations, because of new requirements, open data…
One of the biggest barriers to open government is the decline in citizen participation. Far too many voters believe that their ideas and opinions don’t matter to, or won’t…
In part one of my interview with Pia Mancini, a political activist, I investigated the technologies and background of DemocracyOS, a project aiming to become the operating…
Crowdfunding is everywhere. People are using it to fund watches, comic books, even famous film directors are doing it. In what is now a $6 billion industry globally, I think…
The federal government is the single largest purchaser of code in the world. So why is this code—taxpayer-funded and integral to the day-to-day working of our democracy—so…
Data.gov wants to be the fuel that helps power the organizations and people that will change the world. Data by itself is just the tinder for the spark of imagination and…