Open Government
Subtitle: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; O'Reilly
Published: 2010
Number of pages: 432
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 A Peace Corps for Programmers; title: Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils; title: Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem; title: Creating a Developer Corps; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 2 Government As a Platform; title: Government As a Platform; title: Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth; title: Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve; title: Lesson 3: Design for Participation; title: A Robustness Principle for Government; title: Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”; title: Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation; title: Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation; title: Lesson 7: Lead by Example; title: Practical Steps for Government Agencies; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 3 By the People; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 4 The Single Point of Failure; title: The Closed Model of Decision Making; title: New Technologies and Civic Life; title: Participatory Democratic Theory in the Age of Networks; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 5 Engineering Good Government; title: The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern; title: Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 6 Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement; title: Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way; title: Providing for Reuse and Innovation; title: Data Authenticity Down the Line; title: Why Bother with Bulk?; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 7 Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence; title: Definitions and Assertions; title: Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet; title: Findings and Issues; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 8 Open Government and Open Society; title: Transparency’s Moment?; title: The Dark Side of Open Government; title: The Missing Diagnosis; title: Targeted Transparency; title: A Matter of Politics; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 9 “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds; title: Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov; title: “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”; title: Recovery.gov Site Still Under Construction; title: Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?; title: Open Data and Open Government; title: Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 10 Two-Way Street: Government with the People; title: Pockets of Excellence: The Goverati; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 11 Citizens’ View of Open Government; title: The First “We President”; title: The Internet Has Made Us Lazy; title: Toward a Findable Government; title: Advanced Citizenship; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 12 After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service; title: The Coasean Collapse; title: The Long Tail of Public Policy; title: Patch Culture; title: The End of Objectivity; title: Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration; title: Extend the Network; title: The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 13 Democracy, Under Everything; title: Many Voices, Many Messages, One Government; title: My Idea; title: Revealing Obscured Government Data; title: Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email; title: How to Improve Civic Engagement; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 14 Emergent Democracy; title: Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism; title: Limiting Factors and the Internet; title: Building an Emergent Democracy; title: The Road to Emergent Democracy; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 15 Case Study: Tweet Congress; title: Tweet Congress: Build an App, Start a Movement; title: Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now; title: So, Who Gets It?; title: Impact; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 16 Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People; title: Entrepreneurial Insurgency and Congress; title: Congress Tweets, Too; title: I YouTube, You YouTube; title: Social Media and the Fight for Transparency; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 17 Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule; title: The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled; title: This Is the Mashable Now; title: What Comes Next; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 18 Case Study: GovTrack.us; title: Opening Legislative Data; title: Screen Scraping Congress; title: Engaging the GovTrack Community; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 19 Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org; title: Accessing Political Donor Data Fraught with Problems; title: The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency; title: Bolstering the Spirit of Public Disclosure Laws; title: State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges; title: In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 20 Case Study: MAPLight.org; title: Why We Founded MAPLight.org; title: MAPLight.org’s Unique Contribution; title: Nuts and Bolts: Using MAPLight.org; title: Barriers to Transparency; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 21 Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing; title: The Decision to Let Go of the Data; title: It’s Not Easy Being Open; title: Creating a New Model for Transparency; title: The Future Is Now; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 22 All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data; title: Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man; title: Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet; title: Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control; title: Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research; title: RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 23 Case Study: Many Eyes; title: Policy; title: From Policy to Politicians; title: Visual Literacy; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 24 My Data Can’t Tell You That; title: The How and Why of Data Collection; title: Federal Data: Approximations Galore; title: Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 25 When Is Transparency Useful?; title: Sharing Documents with the Public; title: Generating Databases for the Public; title: Interpreting Databases for the Public; title: An Alternative; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 26 Transparency Inside Out; title: Complexity Creates Opacity; title: Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia; title: Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information; title: A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products; title: Framing the Window; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 27 Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government; title: Government Transparency: Three Hurdles; title: Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 28 Toads on the Road to Open Government Data; title: What Is Government?; title: Data Collection; title: Exposing the Soul of Government; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 29 Open Government: The Privacy Imperative; title: Privacy-Enhancing Practices; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 30 Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities; title: The Act and Amendments; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 31 Gov→Media→People; title: Crowdsourcing in Action; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 32 Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies; title: Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies; title: Best Practices: Management; title: Best Practices: Technical; title: Best Practices: Social; title: Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: About the Authors; title: Chapter 33 Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government; title: Badly Used Technology Hinders Progress; title: The Digital Age Explained; title: Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology; title: The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies; title: Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Chapter 34 Case Study: Utah.gov; title: A Historical Perspective; title: What Today’s Landscape Looks Like; title: Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government; title: The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools; title: Making Data More Accessible; title: Conclusion; title: About the Author; title: Appendix Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government; title: Colophon