Research Catalog

Title

Open government : [collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice] / edited by Daniel Lathrop and Laurel Ruma.

Publication

Beijing ; Cambridge [Mass.] : O'Reilly, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lathrop, Daniel.
• Ruma, Laurel.
• Fung, Archon, 1968-

Description

xxv, 402 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Web can make real-time data accessible to anyone, but how can government leverage this openness to improve operations and communication, as well as increase citizen participation? In this book, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Theory in practice

Uniform Title

Theory in practice (Sebastopol, Calif.)

Subjects

• HKS Faculty
• DPI – Democracy, Politics, & Institutions
• Transparency in government > United States
• Political participation > United States
• Internet in public administration > United States

Note

• Subtitle from cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A Peace Corps for Programmers -- 2. Government As a Platform -- 3. By the People -- 4. The Single Point of Failure -- 5. Engineering Good Government -- 6. Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement -- 7. Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence -- 8. Open Government and Open Society -- 9. "You Can Be the Eyes and Ears": Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds -- 10. Two-Way Street: Government with the People -- 11. Citizens' view of open government -- 12. After the collapse: Open government and the future of civil service -- 13. Democracy, under everthing -- 15. Case study: tweet congress -- 16. Entrepreneurial insurgency: Republians cinnect with the American people -- 17. Disrupting Washington's golden rule -- 18. Case study: govtrack.us -- 19. Case study: followthemoney.org -- 20. Case study: maplight.org -- 21. Going 2.0: Why opensecret.org opted for full frontal data sharing -- 22. All your data are belong to us: Liberating government data -- 23. Case study: many eyes -- 24. My data can't tell you that -- 25. When is transparency useful? -- 26. Transparency inside out -- 27. Bringing the web 2.0 revolution to government -- 28. Toads on the road to open government data -- 29. Open government: The privacy imperative -- 30. Freedom of information acts: Promises and realities -- 31. Gov-Media-People -- 32. Open source software for open government agencies -- 33. Why open standarts matter in government -- 34. Case study: utah.gov -- A. Memo from president Obama on transparency and open government -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780596804350 (pbk.)
• 0596804350 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 456839049
• SCSB-11676879

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library