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E-Government & Transparency

John Wonderlich on government transparency and accountability

by Jerry Brito on November 17, 2009 • View Comments

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John Wonderlich, the Policy Director at the Sunlight Foundation, discusses the government transparency movement. The discussion also turns to the work of the Sunlight Foundation and Lawrence Lessig’s recent article on “naked transparency.”

Did the White House review net neutrality regulations?

by Jerry Ellig on November 4, 2009 • View Comments

None of the usual watchdogs are barking about the FCC letting the White House comment on its net neutrality regulations before they were proposed.

Saving Journalism with Naked Transparency

by Stan Tsirulnikov on October 30, 2009 • View Comments

Given that new technologies are making the traditional newspaper business model obsolete, shouldn’t we celebrate accessible government data?

Against faith in government

by Jerry Brito on October 26, 2009 • View Comments

A libertarian critique of Lawrence Lessig’s argument the “naked transparency” that justifies public cynicism about politics.

Recovery.gov verdict: half-baked

by Jerry Brito on October 19, 2009 • View Comments

The newly released raw stimulus spending data on Recovery.gov leaves much to be desired. This is not the unprecedented transparency we were promised.

Recovery.gov almost there, but not yet

by Jerry Brito on September 30, 2009 • View Comments

A redesigned Recovery.gov is up, but there’s little new data, and it’s not available in structured formats. The good news is they’ve promised to have it later this month.

Amanda Michel on Distributed Reporting

by Ethan Zuckerman on September 21, 2009 • View Comments

Amanda Michel, the Director of Distributed Reporting at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative news agency, explains to IBM’s Transparent Text symposium, how her newsroom is using crowdsourced reporting. She shows that, in addition to using crowdsourcing for reporting efficiently, it can also be used for dynamic quality control (assessing the quality of government information), accessing novel information you couldn’t find otherwise, and increasing the accountability in journalism.

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