[open-government] Definitions of Open Government and Open Government Data

Mon Apr 8 13:05:25 UTC 2013

On 04/07/2013 01:52 PM, Konrad Reiche wrote:
> I am writing my thesis in Computer Science in the context of Open
> Government Data. Lately, I am dealing a lot with the definitions of
> Open Data, Open Government and Open Government Data.

Hi, Konrad.

The open government movement is evolving, and I think it has changed 
substantially since the O'Reilly book was published. I see it moving in 
the direction of "citizen experience," which is a concept promoted by 
Cyd Harrell:

http://uxmag.com/articles/the-citizen-experience-needs-us

But I would resist the urge to define "open government" as any single 
thing. It may just be a collection of related but distinct communities. 
(And as others have said, OGD is probably not ((open government) data).)

For "open government data," I'll shamelessly plug that I wrote a book 
about that:

http://opengovdata.io/

- Josh Tauberer (@JoshData)

http://razor.occams.info

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