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

Mon Apr 8 15:34:25 UTC 2013

Hi,

I agree with much of what Josh is saying and it will be interesting to see how these various communities - from scientists, librarians, UX designers, policy makers, to hacker advocates, etc. actively interact and collaborate together to solve problems and share learning. 

Part of that openness in my mind is the inclusiveness of these communities to share and learn from each other despite coming from unique disciplines with specific ways of communicating and describing their work.

Cheers,
Michael

On 2013-04-08, at 9:05 AM, Josh Tauberer <tauberer at govtrack.us> 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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