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

[Martin Tisne]

Hi

My sense is that Global Integrity's definition of open government (below) is the most accurate - esp.  in describing how the transparency/accountability and anti-corruption communities of practice are more likely to describe open government (i.e. beyond how open data folks describe it). One of the problems is that our field is very siloed (open data folks, anti corruption campaigners, freedom of information activists, budget transparency activists etc.) and all have slightly different definitions. 

http://www.globalintegrity.org/blog/working-definition-opengov

Best, Martin
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On 8 Apr 2013, at 14:05, Josh Tauberer wrote:

> 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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