[open-government] What Does $3.2M Buy in Open Government?

Wed Jul 17 13:45:40 UTC 2013

> that's a shame for a so-called "OpenGov" challenge :(

That's not fair at all. This is open *government*, not open everything. 
Unlike our governments, we don't pay taxes to the Knight Foundation.

Their applauding thing seemed to be a gimmick, and they should be clear 
about how it is (not) used. But there were a LOT of proposals not 
accepted (including mine), so I think it's a bit of a stretch to assume 
international submissions were singled out.

- Josh Tauberer (@JoshData)

http://razor.occams.info

On 07/17/2013 09:00 AM, Armel LE COZ wrote:
> I totally agree with Samuel and Stef: Close process, not opened to 
> non-US projects (and it was not said) + no transparency about the 
> rules of the challenge and the selection criteria ...that's a shame 
> for a so-called "OpenGov" challenge :(
>
> We spent time and energy to grow the "applauding" of our project 
> Parliament & Citizens ...for nothing because we're not from US?
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Samuel Goëta <samgoeta at gmail.com 
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>     Ce concours m'a agacé, n'hésitez pas à réagir
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>     From: *Samuel Goëta* <samgoeta at gmail.com <mailto:samgoeta at gmail.com>>
>     Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:46 PM
>     Subject: Re: [open-government] What Does $3.2M Buy in Open Government?
>     To: stef <s at ctrlc.hu <mailto:s at ctrlc.hu>>
>     Cc: Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org
>     <mailto:christian.villum at okfn.org>>, Open Government WG List
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>     Completely agree on that, I saw some great projects from all other
>     the world and none of them are in the winners list. Also it's
>     quite obscure the way these 3.2M$ were attributed, especially for
>     an open government grant…
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>     On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu
>     <mailto:s at ctrlc.hu>> wrote:
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>         i find it sad, that only US based initiatives won. this could
>         have been
>         communicated upfront, so that all the 2nd class people of the
>         world do not
>         bother applying. :/
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