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Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
A new book from O’Reilly media, entitled Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, discusses the possible ways government can utilize the power of citizen engagement to become more efficient and transparent. The collection of essays features well-known visionaries such as Carl Malamud, Beth Noveck and Tim O’Reilly.
Open Government includes chapters by Sunlight’s Ellen Miller, Bill Allison and Micah Sifry. Their chapters deal with everything from the role of transparency in countering the weight of monied interests to the need for useful and open government data. The forces of co-innovation and transparency must be in government moving forward and this book brings together some illustrative case studies about how to proceed. Follow this link for a sample of the first eight chapters.
Here’s a nice excerpt from the preface:
What is open government? In the most basic sense, it’s the notion that the people have the right to access the documents and proceedings of government. The idea that the public has a right to scrutinize and participate in government dates at least to the Enlightenment, and is enshrined in both the U.S. Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Its principles are recognized in virtually every democratic country on the planet.
But the very meaning of the term continues to evolve. The concept of open government has been influenced—for the better—by the open source software movement, and taken on a greater focus for allowing participation in the procedures of government. Just as open source software allows users to change and contribute to the source code of their software, open government now means government where citizens not only have access to information, documents, and proceedings, but can also become participants in a meaningful way. Open government also means improved communication and operations within the various branches and levels of government. More sharing internally can lead to greater efficiency and accountability.
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(Deutsch) Anmeldung zum Hackday über unsere mixxt-community
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Open Democracy Camp 2010
Am 8. und 9. Mai 2010 lädt das Opendata-Network zusammen mit Liquid Democracy e.V zum Open Democracy Camp 2010 (#odc10) nach Berlin ein.
Unsere Einladung richtet sich an alle, die sich für die Nutzung und Entwicklung des Netzes als demokratischen Raum interessieren und engagieren. So soll es um Konzepte digitaler Demokratie, um den Einsatz und die Entwicklung von Debatten- und Diskursaggregatoren gehen. Zum Thema soll auch die notwendige Transparenz der öffentlichen Hand werden – eine OpenDemocracy braucht den Zugang zu Informationen – Stichwort: OpenData.
Die Veranstaltung wird eine Mischung aus Barcamp-Format und Workshops werden: Der erste Tag dient zum Austausch, der zweite zur konkreter Zusammen- und Weiterarbeit.
Das Camp richtet sich unter anderem an:
- mögliche Anwender neuer Formen von Demokratie – Vereine, NGOs und Parteien
- an EntwicklerInnen und DesignerInnen unterschiedlicher Softwareprojekte
- PolitiktheoretikerInnen und -praktikerInnen sowie IdeengeberInnen
Zur ausführlichen Infos und zur Anmeldung.
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Manifesto »Strengthen the Commons – Now!«
The following manifesto is the result of a one and a half year process, where dozens of participants from politics, unions, sciences, the free culture and software movement, the environmental movement, economy as well as from art and culture discussed about commons and the relevance for humankind. It was developed in the context of the Interdisciplinary political salons of the Heinrich Böll Foundation‘s „Time for commons“.
Below, the entire text of the manifesto is documented, which is also available as a nicely layouted PDF (4 pages) at Commonsblog.
STRENGTHEN THE COMMONS – NOW!
“Commons are institutional spaces in which we are free.” Yochai Benkler
How the crisis reveals the fabric of our commons
Over the last two hundred years, the explosion of knowledge, technology, and productivity has enabled an unprecedented increase of private wealth. This has improved our quality of life in numerous ways. At the same time, however, we have permitted the depletion of resources and the dwindling of societal wealth. This is brought to our attention by current, interrelated crises in finance, the economy, nutrition, energy, and in the fundamental ecological systems of life.
Gemeingüter: Wohlstand durch Teilen
Vier Monate nach der Verleihung des Wirtschaftsnobelpreises an Elinor Ostrom, der weltweit führenden Gemeinguttheoretikerin, fasst die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung die aktuelle politische Debatte zur Wiederentdeckung der Gemeingüter und vielfältige gemeingüterorienterte Formen des Wirtschaftens in einer neuen Publikation zusammen.
Der Report: “Gemeingüter: Wohlstand durch Teilen” von Silke Helfrich, Rainer Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs und Christian Siefkes gibt einen – durch Geschichten aus aller Welt illustrierten – Überblick über die moderne Debatte zu dem Netz, das die Gesellschaft trägt. Er skizziert mit der Gemeinen Peer Produktion eine Wirtschaftsweise, die auf Gemeingütern beruht und sie reproduziert. Er beschreibt, warum Gemeingüter den gedanklichen Rahmen liefern für eine demokratische, nachhaltige Gesellschaft, in der sich der Einzelne entfaltet und das Ganze gedeiht.
Mit den Autoren:
Silke Helfrich, commonsblog.de
Prof. Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institut
Prof. Rainer Kuhlen, Informationswissenschaftler
Dr. Christian Siefkes, Softwareentwickler und Autor
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
Raum: Beletage
10117 Berlin, Schumannstr. 8
Lageplan
Weitere Informationen:
http://www.gemeingueter.de/
Research: The Open Government Data Project
This Post has been first published on Access-Info: Open Government Data and is actually circulating various E-mailing lists. I think it is a really important initiative and worth reblogging it.
Open Government Data Project: Research project by Access Info and the Open Knowledge Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Society Information Program, to map out and evaluate the current state of initiatives to promote access to government data in formats that can be freely used, reused, and distributed by anyone. The project will also identify the obstacles to accessing and reusing public data and recommendations for future initiatives to address these.
On this page you can read more about the issue and find out how you can get involved in the project.
What is open government data?
The release of databases and other collections of information by government departments in formats that can be freely used, reused and distributed. Release is generally proactive, without the need for access to information requests.
- An example: In 2007, the UK government released a database with locations of bicycle accidents around the country. This information was linked by members of the public to maps, making it possible for cyclists to plan safer journeys avoiding the black spots.
- Another example: In Australia, in January 2010, government released the National Public Toilet Map which shows the location of more than 14,000 public and private public toilet facilities with data such as opening hours, availability of baby changing rooms, and accessibility for people with disabilities. Sounds funny? Think of the possibilities: associations of disabled persons can provide a database for their members to plan journeys; mothers could access a service by mobile phone to locate the nearest baby changing room.
Read more in a good article from the Economist (4 February 2010) Data and transparency: Of governments and geeks
What are governments doing to promote this?
There are currently a number of exciting initiatives to release government data in bulk, these include:
Praktikanten/tin für die Redaktion des Open Data Network
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Economist: European Commission PSI re-use Directive has no bite!