[okfn-discuss] New O'Reilly "Open Government" book

Tue Feb 23 18:12:12 UTC 2010

$45? Youch. I'll wait ;)

Or better:

> - Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open
> government, "The Single Point of Failure"

Can't find this online, but presumably based on
http://books.google.com/books?id=bmSmcDo3kPoC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=noveck+%22single+point+of+failure%22&source=bl&ots=lvut3Z-GMh&sig=uQNsr3edj6pyi136SLyJ0ssh8Vc&hl=en&ei=ABmES8C9CoTysgOUr4G3Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false

> - Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George
> Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating
> Government Data"

Presumably based on: http://www.stlr.org/volumes/volume-ix-2007-2008/brito/

> - Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and
> BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?"

Presumably based on: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/usefultransparency

> - Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation,
> "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule"

Available through http://www.scribd.com/doc/20403555/Open-Government-Excerpt

> - Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People"

Presumably based on http://boingboing.net/2009/12/14/malamuds-by-the-peop.html

> - Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online
> Deliberation and Civic Intelligence"

Probably related to: http://digitaltransformationschool.org/wiki/Doug_Schuler/

I could probably go on, but I've got work to do; if someone could go
through the rest of the ToC and continue this work, I bet it would
make a great reading list :)

Luis

> - Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web
> platform team, "Engineering Good Government"
> - Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at
> the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers"
> - Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0
> Revolution to Government"
> - Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining
> Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer
> Platforms"
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> [READ MORE]
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> WHTM ABC27 Harrisburg (PA)
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>
> Critics Maintain Thompson Isn't Transparent
>
> 02/22/10 7:00 pm   |   reporter: Dennis Owens   producer: Myles Snyder
>
>
>
> Harrisburg, Pa. - President Barack Obama (web | news | bio) is
> promising transparency in the federal health care debate. State
> lawmakers gave us the Right-to-Know Law to access more information
> than ever before. And during her candidacy, Mayor Linda Thompson
> promised transparency in city government. Some complain she's not
> delivering
>
> Transparency means to make visible by allowing light. Lots of
> politicians these days promise transparency.
>
> Harrisburg City Controller Dan Miller promises to deliver it this week
> when he unveils a Web site that will show taxpayers where every one of
> their tax dollars is going.
>
> "For example, if we paid Dennis Owens any money last year, you could
> look it up and see if Dennis Owens got paid from the city," said
> Miller. "You didn't. I don't know that, but you could find that out."
>
> Miller calls transparency an important check and balance.
>
> "It's the people's business, and the people have a right to know," he said.
>
> But critics of Mayor Thompson insist her administration is not
> transparent. And they cite a few examples:
>
> - A deal to appraise city assets was given to RSR Realty, whose owner
> sat on the board of Thompson's non-profit organization Loveship and
> contributed to her campaign. Though the financial terms for the
> appraisal work haven't been finalized or approved by city council, RSR
> has started the work.
>
> - abc27 sources tell us that Rhoads & Sinon law firm will get school
> district business. Rhoads & Sinon is the law firm of James Ellison,
> Thompson's campaign manager and head of the Harrisburg Authority.
>
> - A directive to school district Superintendent Gerald Kohn not to
> talk to anyone, especially the press, about school district business.
> This could hinder the district's fund raising.
>
>
>
> [READ MORE]If you show more about what you're doing, people trust you
> more. Maybe that's obvious, but now we have some results along those
> lines for Federal sites. The deal is that we now have an
> Administration...
>
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> KTUL News Channel 8 Oklahoma City (OK)
>
>
>
> Committee Approves Bills To Streamline Operations
>
>
>
> Oklahoma City - A pair of bills designed to streamline government
> operations and provide more transparency on state spending have
> cleared a House panel.
>
> The bills passed unanimously Monday through the House Government
> Modernization Committee. One bill by Rep. Ken Miller would require the
> state to post more information on state expenditures to a state Web
> site, including all purchases and individual expenses.
>
> Another bill by Rep. Jason Murphey directs the Office of State Finance
> to develop a plan to consolidate the financial services of all state
> agencies.
>
> Under the bill, payroll, purchasing, accounts payable and accounts
> receivable functions ultimately would be transferred to the Office of
> State Finance. The agency projects more than $2 million in potential
> savings under the plan.
>
>
>
> Saint Petersburg Times (FL)
>
> John Thrasher works to shield party credit cards from public view
>
> So before a conflict of interest could arise, St. Augustine Sen. John
> Thrasher stepped down from chairman of the Senate Ethics and Elections
> Committee when he was chosen as the head of the Republican Party of
> Florida this Saturday.
>
>
>
> But three days before he left the Senate post, Thrasher presided over
> the committee when it gave RPOF (and anyone else with a political
> credit card) a nice fat gift: A clear exemption from having to report
> "a copy of each credit card statement which shall be included in the
> next [campaign finance]report..." [paren mine].
>
>
>
> That language actually exists in statute. Thrasher's committee bill
> strikes it out.
>
>
>
> But it was already nullified by a curious 2005 Division of Elections
> opinion that essentially said "each credit card statement" didn't need
> to be "included" because it would be too difficult to include the
> statements via the state's electronic campaign-finance filing system.
> Apparently, the government system didn't have a function to accept
> PDFs. Yeah, PDFs are so hard to post.
>
>
>
> Like this one: Download De0507.
>
>
>
> [READ MORE]
>
>
>
> The Illinois Review (IL)
>
> Andrzejewski to Spearhead Forensic Audit at Illinois Secretary of State
>
> from the Enriquez campaign
>
> February 21, 2010, AURORA - Robert Enriquez, Republican candidate for
> Illinois Secretary of  State, announced today that Adam Andrzejewski
> would lead the forensic audit of the Illinois  Secretary of State’s
> office after victory in the November general election.
>
>
>
> [READ MORE]
>
> The Statesman Journal (OR)
>
>
>
> Open government vital for accountability
>
> Plan to boost transparency will benefit all Oregonians
>
> February 23, 2010
>
> Previous Page
>
>
>
> Mention the topic of open meetings and open records to some folks, and
> you'll be greeted with a yawn at best and a snore at worst. But it's a
> topic that gives journalists goosebumps.
>
>
>
> And frankly, it's a subject that should stir every Oregonian: We are a
> people committed to public debate and dialogue.
>
>
>
> So why do we allow so much of government to take place behind closed doors?
>
> Oregon Attorney General John Kroger wants to change that. He has
> launched a statewide initiative to improve government transparency.
>
>
>
> Kroger and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association are hosting six
> public meetings to identify weaknesses in Oregon's open-government
> practices. The first forum is Wednesday evening at the Salem Public
> Library.
>
>
>
> Journalists are passionate about open government.
>
> In recent months, public-records laws have enabled the Statesman
> Journal to get information relating to investigations of state
> officials and agencies. Public meetings and records have enabled
> reporters and editorial writers to witness the scandal at the
> Willamette Education Service District as it unfolded.
>
>
>
> [READ MORE]
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>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
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