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A

accountability, The Dark Side of Open Government, Screen Scraping Congress, Accountability, Crowdsourcing in Action

citizens replacing journalists in holding government accountable, Crowdsourcing in Action

legislative information and, Screen Scraping Congress

privacy protection and government data, Accountability

transparency and, The Dark Side of Open Government

ad hoc groups, Conclusion

adhocracy, Pockets of Excellence: The Goverati

advisory committees, A Robustness Principle for Government

advocacy, Be knowledgeable, Clearly identify your emails

BAHs (basic advocacy headlines) for communications, Clearly identify your emails

making your voice heard, Be knowledgeable

Allen, George, Crowdsourcing in Action

Allison, Bill, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Amazon, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, A Robustness Principle for Government, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

crowdsourcing technology, A Robustness Principle for Government

factors in success, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

service-oriented architecture, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending

anonymity for privacy protection, Anonymous Access

antipatterns, Engineering Good Government, The First Constitution, Order from Chaos: The Standards Reference Model, Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy, The blob and government

blob antipattern, Order from Chaos: The Standards Reference Model, Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy, The blob and government

stovepipe antipattern, The First Constitution

antitrust enforcement, innovation and, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

APIs (application programming interfaces), Gov→Media→People

APIs for government data, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, A Robustness Principle for Government, Why Bother with Bulk?

participation enabled by, A Robustness Principle for Government

portal for, Data.gov, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

Apple, Government As a Platform, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

factors in success, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

iPhone, Government As a Platform (see iPhone)

application programming interfaces (APIs), Gov→Media→People

Apps for America, Creating a Developer Corps

Apps for Democracy competition, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem

Apps.DC.gov, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

Arkansas, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

campaign finance disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

selling of legislative information, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

Armstrong, Charles, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Articles of Confederation, The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern, The Stovepipe Antipattern

as stovepipe antipattern, The Stovepipe Antipattern

Ashcroft, John, Changing Policies, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

“Ask the President” project, Crowdsourcing in Action (see Personal Democracy Forum)

asymmetric organization, Conclusion

audit logs, immutable, Accountability

automated content, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

B

backups of government data, controlling for privacy, Controlled Backups

BAHs (basic advocacy headlines), Clearly identify your emails

The Bakersfield Californian, Gov→Media→People

Bass, Gary D., How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

bazaar or marketplace, government as, Government As a Platform

Bender, Edwin, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Berners-Lee, Tim, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Biden, Joe, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

blob antipattern, Order from Chaos: The Standards Reference Model, Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy, The blob and government, The blob and government

government and, The blob and government

blogging, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants, This Is the Mashable Now, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

blogs for Utah state government bloggers, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

inside and outside of government, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

Porkbusters coalition of bloggers, This Is the Mashable Now

Utah bloggers in Utah openness debate, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

Boehner, John, Gathering Effective Tools

Brandeis, Louis, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation

BRIDGE platform, U.S. Intelligence Community, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees

Brito, Jerry, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

bubble charts, Policy

bulk government data versus APIs, Why Bother with Bulk?

Bureau of Labor Statistics, job losses in April 2009, My Data Can’t Tell You That

bureaucracies, culture of, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security

Burton, Matthew, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Bush administration, Changing Policies, Crowdsourcing in Action

FOIA policy, Changing Policies

politically based firings of U.S. attorneys, Crowdsourcing in Action

C

C-SPAN, opening up of archives, This Is the Mashable Now

California, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges, Case Study: MAPLight.org, Barriers to Transparency

access to voting records of legislators, Barriers to Transparency

campaign finance disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

influence of moneyed interests in state politics, Case Study: MAPLight.org

campaign finance, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule, What Comes Next, This Is the Mashable Now, Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org, Conclusion, Why We Founded MAPLight.org

access to political donor data, Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org, Conclusion

disrupting rule of money in Washington, D.C., Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule, What Comes Next

information available online, This Is the Mashable Now

money–politics connection, corrupting influence, Why We Founded MAPLight.org

Carrotmob project, New Technologies and Civic Life

The Cathedral & the Bazaar, Government As a Platform, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

cell phone market, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), This Is the Mashable Now, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency, Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing, Conclusion, Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing, It’s Not Easy Being Open, Creating a New Model for Transparency, The Future Is Now

(see also OpenSecrets.org)

campaign fundraising and lobbying data, This Is the Mashable Now

difficulties of being open, It’s Not Easy Being Open

future developments, The Future Is Now

new model for transparency, Creating a New Model for Transparency

opening up of political finance and lobbying data, Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing

CFR (Code of Federal Regulations), Changing Policy from the Outside

Change Congress, Patch Culture, Conclusion

Change.gov website, Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov

choice architecture, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Christensen, Clayton, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

cities, release of government raw data, Patch Culture

citizen self-organization, A Robustness Principle for Government

citizen self-service, A Robustness Principle for Government, A Robustness Principle for Government

example in Hawaii, A Robustness Principle for Government

citizenship, advanced, Advanced Citizenship

citizens’ view of open government, Citizens’ View of Open Government, Conclusion, The First “We President”, The Internet Has Made Us Lazy, Toward a Findable Government

findable government data, working toward, Toward a Findable Government

Internet and findability of government data, The Internet Has Made Us Lazy

Obama as first “we president”, The First “We President”

city services, APIs for, A Robustness Principle for Government

civic intelligence, Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence, Definitions and Assertions, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created, Findings and Issues, Conclusion

definitions and assertions about, Definitions and Assertions

democracy, deliberation, and the Internet, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created

findings and issues for deliberative systems, Findings and Issues

potential for online deliberation, Conclusion

civic organizations, transparency movement, Transparency’s Moment?

civic participation, enabling innovation for, Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement, Conclusion, Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way, Providing for Reuse and Innovation, Data Authenticity Down the Line, Why Bother with Bulk?

citizen initiatives leading the way, Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way

data APIs versus bulk data, Why Bother with Bulk?

data authentication for third-party interfaces, Data Authenticity Down the Line

providing for reuse and innovation, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

civil service, future of, After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service, Conclusion, The Coasean Collapse, The Long Tail of Public Policy, Patch Culture, The End of Objectivity, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration, Extend the Network, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

Coasean collapse, The Coasean Collapse

end of objectivity, The End of Objectivity

extending government networks to citizen participation, Extend the Network

long tail of public policy, The Long Tail of Public Policy

next culture, the gift economy, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

patch culture, Patch Culture

preconditions to government as platform, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

Clinton, Bill, From Policy to Politicians, Crowdsourcing in Action

cloud computing, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Controlled Backups

encouragement of open standards and interoperability, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

introduction of EC2 platform by Amazon, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

privacy issues for government data, Controlled Backups

CNN visualizations, Visual Literacy

Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities

Coase, Ronald, The Coasean Collapse

Coasean collapse, The Coasean Collapse

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Changing Policy from the Outside

collaboration, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

between intelligence analysts and outsiders on national security, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees

precondition to government as platform, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

collaborative filtering, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

collaborative technologies, solving collective problems, Government As a Platform

committee data on Congressional bills, Committees

Common Cause organization, The Future Is Now

communication from government to citizens, By the People

community collaborative tools, E-Liberate is created

comparison tag cloud, From Policy to Politicians

competition, importance of, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem

complexity creating opacity, Complexity Creates Opacity

computer networking, OSI model, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

computer-assisted reporting, Gov→Media→People

Congress, By the People, Patch Culture, Many Voices, Many Messages, One Government, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges, Barriers to Transparency, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

access to hearings, By the People

campaign finance disclosures, Barriers to Transparency

citizens’ access to legislative process, Many Voices, Many Messages, One Government

communications with constituents, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email

entrepreneurial insurgency and use of social media by Republicans, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion

information on members’ voting and work, Patch Culture

personal financial disclosure of members, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

Senate campaign finance disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

Congress Votes database, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, efforts to make public, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

Connecticut, campaign finance disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

Consortium for Open Source Software in the Public Administration (COSPA), Seek Out Advice or Search for Information on Similar Transitions

Constitution, Engineering Good Government, The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

directives on avoidance of legislative secrecy, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

good framework for government, Engineering Good Government

as standards reference model, The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model

constitution for emergent democracy, Building an Emergent Democracy

consultation in government, By the People

contracting for government IT, failures of, A Peace Corps for Programmers, A Peace Corps for Programmers

contracts and grants (federal), information on, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

corporate and nonprofit records, access to, Sharing Documents with the Public

cosmos versus taxis, Limiting Factors and the Internet

cost to keep and expose government data, Cost

coupling (in software design), The Blob

court records, federal court, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

courts in Utah, online services, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

Craigslist, A Robustness Principle for Government, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

mashup using data on Google Maps, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights of 2009, industries supporting and opposing, MAPLight.org’s Unique Contribution

Critical Infrastructure Information Act (2002), The Act and Amendments

crowdsourcing, A Robustness Principle for Government, Providing for Reuse and Innovation, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds, Engaging the GovTrack Community, Gov→Media→People

(see also wisdom of crowds, Barack Obama and)

collaborative filtering and crowdsourced analysis of data, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

GovTrack.us user community, Engaging the GovTrack Community

potential use by journalists in new mediasphere, Gov→Media→People

CRS (Congressional Research Service) reports, efforts to make public, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

Culberson, John, So, Who Gets It?

culture in government, Changing the Culture Within Government, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security

changes needed in spending reporting, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

changing culture of secrecy to transparency, Changing the Culture Within Government

resistance to release of information, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security

D

Daffara, Carlo, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

Danish Board of Technology (DBT), consensus conferences, Online Civic Deliberation

data, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Open Data and Open Government, Toward a Findable Government

importance in context of current Internet business models, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

inaccessibility of government data to search engines, Toward a Findable Government

open data and open government, Open Data and Open Government

data authentication for third-party sites, Data Authenticity Down the Line

data collection by city governments, Data Collection

data feeds, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

data minimization, Data Minimization

data mining and harnessing of implicit participation, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

data retention and decommissioning by government, Data Retention and Decommissioning

data tethering, Data-Sharing Integrity: Data Tethering

data-driven, service-oriented architecture, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

Data.gov, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, Open Data and Open Government, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency, Appointing the first federal CIO

platform model for Gov 2.0, Apps.DC.gov versus, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

quest for simple system, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

Data.utah.gov, Making Data More Accessible

databases, A Peace Corps for Programmers, Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils, Proprietary and Medieval Databases

(see also IT)

proprietary and antiquated, holding government data, Proprietary and Medieval Databases

terrorist watch list, failures of, Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils

de Cindio, Fiorella, E-Liberate is created

de Tocqueville, Alexis, The Dark Side of Open Government

decline of deference, Patch Culture

default choices in public policy, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

deliberation, Definitions and Assertions, Conclusion, Definitions and Assertions, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, Support for Online Civic Deliberation, Findings and Issues, Conclusion

conclusions about, Conclusion

context of, Definitions and Assertions

democracy and the Internet, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet

issues for developers of deliberative systems, Findings and Issues

online civic deliberation, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, Support for Online Civic Deliberation

deliberative democracy, The Timidity of Deliberative Democracy, The Timidity of Deliberative Democracy, Distinguishing Deliberative and Collaborative Democracy, Distinguishing Deliberative and Collaborative Democracy

versus collaborative democracy, Distinguishing Deliberative and Collaborative Democracy, Distinguishing Deliberative and Collaborative Democracy

DeMint, Jim, The TC Effect, Changing Policy from the Outside

democracy, Definitions and Assertions, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created, The Missing Diagnosis, Emergent Democracy, Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism

changes wrought by the Internet, Emergent Democracy (see emergent democracy)

civic intelligence and, Definitions and Assertions

definitions of, Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism

deliberation and the Internet, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created

transparency in government and private sectors, The Missing Diagnosis

Department of Defense (DoD), Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Complexity Creates Opacity

guidance on use of open source software, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

Department of Justice, By the People, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use, Conclusion

PACER database, By the People, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

website for FOIA oversight, Conclusion

design patterns and antipatterns, Engineering Good Government

developer corps, creating, Creating a Developer Corps

developer ecosystem, competition from platform provider, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

Dierking, Howard, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

digital age, explanation of, The Digital Age Explained

digital signatures for government data, Data Authenticity Down the Line

DIO (Do It Ourselves), A Robustness Principle for Government

DIRECT Launcher project, The Coasean Collapse

disclosure of federal spending, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients, Using Technology to Make Recovery Act Data Accessible, Understandable, and Usable, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

culture change emphasizing effectiveness, performance, and equity, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

policy changes for deeper information on recipients, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients

technology making data transparent and useful, Using Technology to Make Recovery Act Data Accessible, Understandable, and Usable

disclosure of government data, paper versus Internet, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

discrimination in mortgage lending, Targeted Transparency

discussion forums, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

documenting government, By the People

Drapeau, Mark, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

E

e-Liberate, E-Liberate is created

Eaves, David, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

economic crisis of 2009, The Dark Side of Open Government, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”, My Data Can’t Tell You That

(see also wisdom of crowds, Barack Obama and)

crowdsourcing, watching of government spending on, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”

government efforts to counter, The Dark Side of Open Government

unemployment figures, My Data Can’t Tell You That

EDGAR database, By the People, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

SEC forced to make data available over Internet, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

effectiveness of federal spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

electronic health record (EHR), The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies

emails to legislators, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email, Clearly identify your emails

best practices, Clearly identify your emails

emergency services calls, Extend the Network, Data Collection

data collection about, Data Collection

emergent democracy, Emergent Democracy, The Road to Emergent Democracy, Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism, Increasing Scale, Increasing Formalization, Limiting Factors and the Internet, Underlying Principles, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations, The Road to Emergent Democracy

constitution for, Underlying Principles

future trends, The Road to Emergent Democracy

limiting factors and the Internet, Limiting Factors and the Internet

One Click Orgs and virtual corporations, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations

scaling mechanism, democracy as, Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism, Increasing Scale, Increasing Formalization

enterprise architecture patterns, The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern

enterprise stovepipe antipattern, The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern

entrepreneurial insurgency, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion, Entrepreneurial Insurgency and Congress, Congress Tweets, Too, I YouTube, You YouTube, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

Congress and, Entrepreneurial Insurgency and Congress

social media and the fight for transparency, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

Twitter use by Congress members, Congress Tweets, Too

YouTube use by Congress members, I YouTube, You YouTube

equity issues in government spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

EU Open Source Observatory, Promote Collaboration and Pooling of Resources

executive stock options, backdating of, Crowdsourcing in Action

experimentation, lowering barriers to, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation

experts, advisory committees of, A Robustness Principle for Government

F

Facebook, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration, Engaging the GovTrack Community

applications based on GovTrack.us data, Engaging the GovTrack Community

government use of, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

open development platform, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem

failure, experimentation and, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation

Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, Committees

Fair Credit Reporting Act, Transparent Transparency

FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), A Robustness Principle for Government

Federal Chief Information Officer, Appointing the first federal CIO (see Kundra, Vivek)

federal courts online database, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

Federal Election Commission (FEC), example of filing, It’s Not Easy Being Open

federal government, size and complexity creating opacity, Complexity Creates Opacity

federal judiciary, PACER database, By the People

federal stimulus bill, visualization, Policy

FederalReporting.gov, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients

FedSpending.org, This Is the Mashable Now, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

feedback from users, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem

Felten, Edward W., How This Book Is Organized, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, About the Authors

Filibusted.us website, Congressional Mashups

filtering, collaborative, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

financial sector regulation, transparency efforts, A Matter of Politics

findable government data, working toward, Toward a Findable Government

Fioretti, Marco, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

FixMyStreet project, A Robustness Principle for Government, Gov→Media→People

Fletcher, David, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Flickr online photo sharing, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

FLOSS (free/libre/open source software), Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies, Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies, Staff Empowerment, Best Practices: Management, Promote Collaboration and Pooling of Resources, Best Practices: Technical, Compile and Update a Detailed Migration Workbook, Best Practices: Social, Use the Migration As an Opportunity to Improve Users’ Skills, Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn, Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government

advantages for government and public agencies, Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies, Staff Empowerment

making it easy to experiment and learn, Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn

management best practices, Best Practices: Management, Promote Collaboration and Pooling of Resources

social best practices in migration, Best Practices: Social, Use the Migration As an Opportunity to Improve Users’ Skills

technical best practices, Best Practices: Technical, Compile and Update a Detailed Migration Workbook

FOIA, Sharing Documents with the Public (see Freedom of Information Act)

FollowTheMoney.org, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency

form letters to legislators, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email, Forego the use of form letters

Founders’ wave of change, By the People, By the People

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Sharing Documents with the Public, Changing Policies, Changing Policies, Changing Policies, Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities, Conclusion, Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities, The Act and Amendments, Open to All, Research and Prepare, Research and Prepare, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays, FOIA Strategies That Work, Conclusion

the act and amendments, The Act and Amendments

administrations’ policy on, Changing Policies

delays in fulfilling requests, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

denials of requests, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

exemptions to the act, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

flaws and limitations, Changing Policies

needed changes, Research and Prepare

open to citizens from all countries, Open to All

recommended changes for, Changing Policies

research and preparation for filing requests, Research and Prepare

sources of FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities

successful strategies for requests, FOIA Strategies That Work

websites for monitoring FOIA use and changes, Conclusion

Fung, Archon, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

G

GAO (Government Accountability Office) website, Research and Prepare

GDP, government spending as percent of, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

generativity, platforms and, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

geography and government, What Is Government?

gift economy, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

Gillmor, Dan, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Gingrich, Newt, Opening Legislative Data

Global Positioning System (GPS), By the People

global, distributed press conference, Crowdsourcing in Action

god class, Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy (see blob antipattern)

golden rule of Washington, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule (see money, influence on government)

Gonzalez, Albert, From Policy to Politicians

Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M., How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

Google, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

AdWords, data-driven feedback loops, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

extraction of value from implicit participation, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

Google Maps, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Gov 2.0 movement, Preface

Gov 2.0 Summit, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

Goverati, Pockets of Excellence: The Goverati

Government 2.0 Camp, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

Government 2.0, defining, Government As a Platform, Practical Steps for Government Agencies, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, A Robustness Principle for Government, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

build simple system and allow it to evolve, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

data and value derived from it, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

data mining allowing harnessing of implicit participation, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

design for participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

government as platform, Government As a Platform

leading by example, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

learning from hackers, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

lowering barriers to experimentation, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation

open standards sparking innovation and growth, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

practical steps for agencies, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

robustness principle for government, A Robustness Principle for Government

Government Accountability Office (GAO) website, Research and Prepare

“Government Data and the Invisible Hand”, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

government data, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Conclusion

disclosing, paper versus Internet, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

inaccuracies and omissions in, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Conclusion

government employees, use of social networking media, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees, Conclusion

government information flow, Gov→Media→People, Conclusion

government social ambassadors, Harnessing Social Capital

government spending, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, This Is the Mashable Now, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity, Crowdsourcing in Action

citizens’ involvement in watching, This Is the Mashable Now

disclosure of federal spending, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

as percent of GDP, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

ShovelWatch project tracking stimulus package spending, Crowdsourcing in Action

government, definition of, What Is Government?

GovLoop, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees

GovTrack.us, Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way

GovTrack.us case study, Case Study: GovTrack.us, Conclusion, Opening Legislative Data, Screen Scraping Congress, Screen Scraping Congress, Congressional Mashups, Changing Policy from the Outside, Engaging the GovTrack Community

change in goals of website, Screen Scraping Congress

changing government policy on sharing information, Changing Policy from the Outside

engaging user community, Engaging the GovTrack Community

newer technology applied to legislative information, Opening Legislative Data

screen scraping government websites, Screen Scraping Congress

websites reusing GovTrack data in mashups, Congressional Mashups

Gray, Jim, search for, Conclusion

group size, neocortex size as constraint on, Informal Self-Government

H

hack, definition of, All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data

Halliburton, government contracts, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

Hamilton, Alexander, Engineering Good Government, The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model, The Blob

Harper, Jim, How This Book Is Organized, New Technologies and Civic Life, About the Authors

hashing techniques, Minimal Disclosure

Hawaii, citizen self-service example, A Robustness Principle for Government

health care, Government As a Platform, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology, The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies

alignment of costs and outcomes, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

current efforts at reform, technology lessons and, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

electronic health record (EHR), The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies

problems with digital technologies, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology

provision of, government versus private sector, Government As a Platform

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996), The Act and Amendments

hierarchical organizations, value of, The Coasean Collapse

Holder, Eric, Changing Policies

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Targeted Transparency

homeland security and release of government information, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security

Hoppin, Andrew, Revealing Obscured Government Data

HousingMaps.com, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Houston, Brant, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

HTML and HTTP in WWW architecture of participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Huffington Post, New Technologies and Civic Life, This Is the Mashable Now, Crowdsourcing in Action

Bill Clinton interview, Crowdsourcing in Action

FundRace, New Technologies and Civic Life, This Is the Mashable Now

I

Illinois, Open Book mashup of state contracts and political donors, Bolstering the Spirit of Public Disclosure Laws

immutable audit logs, Accountability

impedance mismatches, Design the Workflow Support Infrastructure to Reduce “Impedance Mismatches”

inaccuracies in government data, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Conclusion

information flow about government activities, Gov→Media→People (see government information flow)

information sharing about individuals by government agencies, Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing)

innovation, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement, Conclusion, Bottom-Up Change Through Young Technologists

arising from open standards, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

bottom-up change through young technologists, Bottom-Up Change Through Young Technologists

enabling for civic engagement, Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement, Conclusion

policy defaults’ impact on, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

insiders (moneyed), influence on government, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled

rule of insiders, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled

institutional inertia blocking transparency, Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia

Intel, duopoly with Microsoft, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

Intelligence Community platform (BRIDGE), Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees

Internet, Government As a Platform, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created, The Internet Has Made Us Lazy, Limiting Factors and the Internet, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

democracy, deliberation and, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, E-Liberate is created

design for participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

disclosure of government data on, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

effectiveness of government transparency goals and, The Internet Has Made Us Lazy

elimination of limiting factors on democracy, Limiting Factors and the Internet

government data access and, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

as information superhighway, Government As a Platform

Web 2.0 and importance of data, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

Internet wave of change, By the People

interoperability and portability, encouragement through open standards, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

Investigative Reporters and Editors, The Act and Amendments

iPhone, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

developer platform, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

equivalent needed in health care system, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

introduction of, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

Routesy app, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

StationStops app, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

IT, A Peace Corps for Programmers, Conclusion, Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia, Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products, Framing the Window, Downsize or Eliminate Organizational IT Development Teams, User Analytics, IT Transparency, IT Products, Not Projects, Set the Tone at the Top, Bottom-Up Change Through Young Technologists, Deploying Twenty-First-Century Technology, Ancient Media, Proprietary and Medieval Databases

antiquated media storing government data, Ancient Media

bottom-up change in government IT through young technologists, Bottom-Up Change Through Young Technologists

downsizing or eliminating federal organizations’ development teams, Downsize or Eliminate Organizational IT Development Teams

federal government, need to develop own software, A Peace Corps for Programmers, Conclusion

fragmented IT and one-off apps in DoD, Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information

government IT market, focus on proposals, not products, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products

government market, pre-Internet mentality, Framing the Window

products, not projects for government IT, IT Products, Not Projects

proprietary and antiquated databases storing government data, Proprietary and Medieval Databases

setting tone at top for government IT, Set the Tone at the Top

transparency for government IT projects, IT Transparency

transparency in government, Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia

user analytics for government IT products, User Analytics

using 21st-century technology to enable government data transparency, Deploying Twenty-First-Century Technology

IT Dashboard (IT.usaspending.gov), Open Data and Open Government, Appointing the first federal CIO

J

Jonas, Jeff, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

journalism, Gov→Media→People, Gov→Media→People, Gov→Media→People, Conclusion, Crowdsourcing in Action

failure to ask hard questions, Crowdsourcing in Action

possibilities in new mediasphere, Gov→Media→People, Conclusion

reporting on government activities, Gov→Media→People

self-appointed role as intermediaries between government and citizens, Gov→Media→People

journalism organizations, The Act and Amendments

K

Kettl, Donald, Government As a Platform

Knowledge As Power, My Idea

Koelkebeck, Tim, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Krumholz, Sheila, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Kundra, Vivek, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, A Robustness Principle for Government, Open Data and Open Government, Appointing the first federal CIO, Making Data More Accessible

L

lack of political will for transparency, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

law of conservation of attractive profits, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

Lee, Tim, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

legal materials, access to, By the People

legal restrictions on releasing government data, Privacy and Legal Restrictions

Legislative Committee Analysis Tool, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency

legislative process, citizens’ access to, Democracy, Under Everything, Conclusion, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access, Meeting Modern-Day Needs, Revealing Obscured Government Data, How to Improve Civic Engagement, Use open source tools, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

charges by governments for legislative information, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

Constitutional directives on avoiding secrecy, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

inadequacy of current tools, Meeting Modern-Day Needs

recommendations for improvement, How to Improve Civic Engagement, Use open source tools

social media and journalism, Revealing Obscured Government Data

Utah state government, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

Legislative Research Service (LRS), Revealing Obscured Government Data

LegiStorm website, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

Leonhardt, David, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

Lessig, Lawrence, Patch Culture, Committees, Policy

lethally generous, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

liberating government data, All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data, Conclusion, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

freeing PACER documents for public use, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

open distribution versus jealous control, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

paper copies versus online data, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

public money versus private research, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

Library of Congress, THOMAS system, Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way, Opening Legislative Data, Changing Policy from the Outside

limiting factors for democracy, Limiting Factors and the Internet

Lincoln wave of change, By the People

links to web pages, WWW design and, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Linux, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

LittleSis project, The Future Is Now

Lobbyist Link mashup, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency

lobbyists, Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

inaccurate reporting of campaign contributions, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

in Washington, D.C., Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule

we are all lobbyists now, Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now

long tail, The Long Tail of Public Policy, Extend the Network

governments tapping into, Extend the Network

Los Angeles County, transparency efforts, Targeted Transparency

LRS (Legislative Research Service), Revealing Obscured Government Data

M

machine-readable formats for data disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

Madison, James, The blob and government, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule

Malamud, Carl, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, Changing Policy from the Outside, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man, Sharing Documents with the Public

liberating government data, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

Many Eyes visualizations, Policy, From Policy to Politicians

Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech, From Policy to Politicians

MAPLight.org, New Technologies and Civic Life, Providing for Reuse and Innovation, This Is the Mashable Now, Congressional Mashups, Case Study: MAPLight.org, Conclusion, Why We Founded MAPLight.org, Why We Founded MAPLight.org, MAPLight.org’s Unique Contribution, Votes, Timeline, Committees, How Each Legislator Voted, Other Tools

campaign finance data mashups with Congressional votes, This Is the Mashable Now

committee data on bills, Committees

database illuminating money–politics connection, Why We Founded MAPLight.org

mashups using GovTrack’s legislative database, Congressional Mashups

other tools, Other Tools

reasons for founding, Why We Founded MAPLight.org

timeline feature for campaign contributions, Timeline

unique contribution of, MAPLight.org’s Unique Contribution

vote data for legislators, How Each Legislator Voted

votes on bills and campaign donations, Votes

maps, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

mapping mashups, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

MapQuest and Google Maps, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

mashups of government data, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

Maricopa County (Arizona) sheriff’s office, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

marketplace or bazaar, government as, Government As a Platform

Marshall, Joshua Micah, Crowdsourcing in Action

mashups, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Providing for Reuse and Innovation, This Is the Mashable Now, Congressional Mashups, Encouraging data mashups

encouraging with government data, Encouraging data mashups

government data from different agencies, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

potential for government data, This Is the Mashable Now

using GovTrack’s legislative database, Congressional Mashups

McCain, John, From Policy to Politicians

McCaskill, Claire, So, Who Gets It?

McCroskey, Chris, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

Mechanical Turk projects, A Robustness Principle for Government

Medicare, dynamic pricing system for, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

meetings (law-making process), access to, By the People

meetups, civic-minded and self-organized, A Robustness Principle for Government

Melber, Ari, Crowdsourcing in Action, Crowdsourcing in Action

Microsoft, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

development and control of PC market, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

duopoly with Intel, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

factors in success, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

introduction of Windows platform and applications, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

Milan Community Network, E-Liberate is created

Miller, Ellen S., How This Book Is Organized, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?, About the Author, It’s Not Easy Being Open

minimal data disclosure to protect privacy, Minimal Disclosure

money, influence on government, The Dark Side of Open Government, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule, What Comes Next, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, This Is the Mashable Now, What Comes Next, Why We Founded MAPLight.org, Conclusion

campaign contributions correlated with legislation, Conclusion

campaign finance and political donors, Why We Founded MAPLight.org

future developments in transparency, What Comes Next

government information on the Internet, This Is the Mashable Now

poll of American public on, The Dark Side of Open Government

rule of insiders, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled

mortgages, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Targeted Transparency

Moulton, Sean, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, Changing the Culture Within Government

multimedia portal (Utah.gov), Utah’s Multimedia Portal Leverages Web 2.0 Services

mySociety organization, A Robustness Principle for Government, Gov→Media→People

N

NASA, DIRECT Launcher project, The Coasean Collapse

The Nation magazine, Crowdsourcing in Action, Crowdsourcing in Action

National Freedom of Information Coalition, Open to All

National Institute on Money in State Politics, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data, Case Study: MAPLight.org

recommendations for open data, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data

National Security Archive, information on FOIA requests, Sharing Documents with the Public, Open to All

Netherland, Wynn, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

New York State legislature, selling of legislative information, Revealing Obscured Government Data

The New York Times, visualizations, Visual Literacy

Newman, Daniel, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

news media, reporting on government activities, Gov→Media→People, Conclusion

news sources for legislative process, Revealing Obscured Government Data

Newsom, Gavin, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

911 (emergency services) calls, Extend the Network

Noveck, Beth Simone, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author, Open Data and Open Government, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), data on nuclear waste, The How and Why of Data Collection

nuclear waste from power plants, The How and Why of Data Collection

O

Obama administration, Open Government and Open Society, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Government Transparency: Three Hurdles, Changing Policies

commitment to open government, Open Government and Open Society

FOIA policy, Changing Policies

Open Government Initiative, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

stimulus spending, transparency of, My Data Can’t Tell You That

transparency, promises versus actual, Government Transparency: Three Hurdles

Obama, Barack, Preface, By the People, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds, Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov, The First “We President”, Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government

(see also wisdom of crowds, Barack Obama and)

first “we president”, The First “We President”

statement on open government and transparency, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds

Transparency and Open Government memo, Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government

object orientation, The Blob

objectivity, end of, The End of Objectivity

obscurity of public servants, reversing, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

obsolescent media and unreadable software formats, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Open Data and Open Government

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Open Data and Open Government

Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Transparency Inside Out

OMB Watch, Federal Data: Approximations Galore

One Click Orgs, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations

one-way hash, Minimal Disclosure

online civic deliberation, Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet, Online Civic Deliberation, Online Civic Deliberation

support for, Online Civic Deliberation

online town hall, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?

open data, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data, Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing, Conclusion

Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing, Conclusion

recommendations for disclosure, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data

open digital standards, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

innovation and growth arising from, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

open digital standards in open government, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government, Conclusion, Badly Used Technology Hinders Progress, The Digital Age Explained, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology, Why Has Digital Gone Bad So Often?, The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies, Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government

badly used technology hindering progress, Badly Used Technology Hinders Progress

digital basis of open government, Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government

explanation of digital age, The Digital Age Explained

positive potential of digital technologies, The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies

reasons digital has gone bad, Why Has Digital Gone Bad So Often?

standards and problems with digital technology, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology

Open for Questions area of White House website, Crowdsourcing in Action

open government, Preface, Definitions and Assertions, Open Government and Open Society, The Dark Side of Open Government

dark side of, The Dark Side of Open Government

defined, Preface

improving democracy, civic intelligence, and containing costs, Definitions and Assertions

Obama administration position on, Open Government and Open Society

open government data, barriers to, Toads on the Road to Open Government Data, Conclusion, What Is Government?, Data Collection, Exposing the Soul of Government, Privacy and Legal Restrictions, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security, Ancient Media, Proprietary and Medieval Databases, Ethically Questionable Information (Privacy), Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing), Cost

antiquated media for government data, Ancient Media

cost, Cost

culture of bureaucracies and homeland security, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security

data collection by governments, Data Collection

definition of government, What Is Government?

ethically questionable information (privacy), Ethically Questionable Information (Privacy)

privacy and legal restrictions, Privacy and Legal Restrictions

proprietary and antiquated databases, Proprietary and Medieval Databases

reasons why government data is not released, Exposing the Soul of Government

sharing of ethically questionable information, Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing)

open government directives, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

Open Government Initiative, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

open society, The Missing Diagnosis, A Matter of Politics, Conclusion

political opposition to targeted transparency, A Matter of Politics

transparency efforts, conclusions on, Conclusion

open source software, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Use open source tools, Open source fuels open government

Department of Defense guidance on use by military, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

reason projects work, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

used to build Tweet Congress, Open source fuels open government

using to disseminate government information, Use open source tools

open source software for open government, Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies, References, Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies, Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies, Best Practices: Management, Promote Collaboration and Pooling of Resources, Best Practices: Technical, Compile and Update a Detailed Migration Workbook, Best Practices: Social, Use the Migration As an Opportunity to Improve Users’ Skills, Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn

advantages of FLOSS, Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies

hurdles in adopting FLOSS, Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies

making it easy to experiment and learn, Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn

management best practices, Best Practices: Management, Promote Collaboration and Pooling of Resources

social best practices, Best Practices: Social, Use the Migration As an Opportunity to Improve Users’ Skills

technical best practices, Best Practices: Technical, Compile and Update a Detailed Migration Workbook

Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

open systems, design for participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

OpenCongress.org, Patch Culture, This Is the Mashable Now, Congressional Mashups, Engaging the GovTrack Community, The Future Is Now

applications using GovTrack.us data, Engaging the GovTrack Community

OpenCRS.com, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

OpenSecrets.org, Conclusion

O’Reilly, Tim, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author, By the People, Making Data More Accessible

P

PACER database (federal judiciary), By the People, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

Palin, Sarah, From Policy to Politicians

paper copies versus online data disclosure, Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet

parliamentary procedure, Support for Online Civic Deliberation

participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, A Robustness Principle for Government, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Extend the Network

citizen participation in government employees’ networks, Extend the Network

data mining allowing harnessing of, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

design principle, meaning in technology context, A Robustness Principle for Government

designing for, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

participatory government, online town halls and, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?

patch culture, Patch Culture

patent and trademark database, online, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

patterns and antipatterns, Engineering Good Government

PC era, keys to success, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

PC market, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

PDFs, limitations as format for data disclosure, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

Pentagon, internal transparency efforts, Transparency Inside Out, Conclusion, Complexity Creates Opacity, Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia, Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products, Framing the Window, Conclusion

complexity creating opacity, Complexity Creates Opacity

market focus on proposals, not products, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products

necessary improvements for government, Framing the Window, Conclusion

one-off apps obscuring information, Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information

transparency meets institutional inertia, Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia

performance data on government spending, Changing the Culture to Emphasize Effectiveness, Performance, and Equity

Perkins, Frances, By the People

Personal Democracy Forum, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants, What Comes Next, Crowdsourcing in Action

photo-sharing sites, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

phrase nets, Policy

planned systems versus emergent systems, Limiting Factors and the Internet

platform provider, competition with developer ecosystem, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

platform, government as, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation, Lesson 7: Lead by Example, By the People, After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations, Making Data More Accessible

architecture leading to most generative outcome, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

big government versus small government debate, Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation

electronic governance platform for emergent democracy, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations

encouraging private sector to build applications using government data, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

examples, By the People

gift economy and platforms, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

open standards sparking innovation and growth, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

preconditions, capacity for self-organization and collaboration, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

radical change rather than patching systems, Lesson 7: Lead by Example

resistance from established culture, After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service

policy, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?, Policy, Changing Policies, Changing Policies, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients

changes to get deeper information on recovery-spending recipients, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients

changing government policy for transparency, Changing Policies, Changing Policies

priorities, public involvement in discussion of, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?

visualizing, Policy

Political Action Committees (PACs), campaign contributions, What Comes Next

political donor data, accessing, Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org, Conclusion, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency, Bolstering the Spirit of Public Disclosure Laws, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data

bolstering public disclosure laws, Bolstering the Spirit of Public Disclosure Laws

challenges to state-level transparency, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

meaningful disclosure with machine-readable formats, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

National Institute on Money in State Politics, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency

recommendations for open data, In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data

political opposition to targeted transparency, A Matter of Politics

politicians, visualizing, From Policy to Politicians

Politicopia wiki, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

polling, deliberative, Online Civic Deliberation

Porkbusters (bloggers), This Is the Mashable Now

Postel, Jon, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

pothole map for Bakersfield, California streets, Gov→Media→People

Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program, Bottom-Up Change Through Young Technologists

Presidential Records Act (PRA), Data Retention and Decommissioning

press conferences (people’s), Crowdsourcing in Action

Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

privacy, Privacy and Legal Restrictions, Ethically Questionable Information (Privacy), The Act and Amendments

ethically questionable government information, Ethically Questionable Information (Privacy)

laws covering government data, The Act and Amendments

restrictions on government data, Privacy and Legal Restrictions

Privacy Act, Sharing Documents with the Public, Data-Sharing Integrity: Data Tethering

privacy imperative and open government, Open Government: The Privacy Imperative, Conclusion, Privacy-Enhancing Practices, Anonymous Access, Controlled Backups, Data Retention and Decommissioning, Minimal Disclosure, Data-Sharing Integrity: Data Tethering, Accountability, Transparent Transparency

accountability for data use, Accountability

anonymous access for privacy enhancement, Anonymous Access

controlled backups of data, Controlled Backups

data minimization to enhance privacy, Privacy-Enhancing Practices

data retention and decommissioning, Data Retention and Decommissioning

data-sharing integrity and data tethering, Data-Sharing Integrity: Data Tethering

minimal disclosure, Minimal Disclosure

transparent transparency, Transparent Transparency

private sector, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Transparency’s Moment?, The Missing Diagnosis

government competition with, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

need for transparency in, Transparency’s Moment?, The Missing Diagnosis

Project Vote Smart, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency

proposals for government IT projects, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products

ProPublica nonprofit newsroom, Policy

protocol-based cooperative work, Support for Online Civic Deliberation

public accounting systems, platform for citizens, The Dark Side of Open Government

Public Campaign, Conclusion

public policy, The Long Tail of Public Policy

long tail of, The Long Tail of Public Policy

public servants’ obscurity, reversing, Reversing the Obscurity of Public Servants

public, defined as online, By the People

Public.Resource.Org, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, Changing Policy from the Outside

PublicMarkup.org, New Technologies and Civic Life

(see also Sunlight Foundation)

publishing data online, formats for, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

Q

QSOS and FLOSSMETRICS projects, Consider All the Factors, Both Technical and Contextual

Quaid, Dennis, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government

questions on education, visualizations of, Policy

R

Rademacher, Paul, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Raymond, Eric, Government As a Platform, The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy

RECAP browser plug-in, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, Policy Changes to Get Deeper Information on Recipients

Recovery Act, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending

Recovery.gov, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending

stimulus spending data, My Data Can’t Tell You That

Reich, Brian, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, The Act and Amendments, Open to All

Republican Party, use of social media, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion

Request for Proposals (RFP) for government IT projects, A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products

Rice, Condoleezza, Crowdsourcing in Action

Right To Know (RTK), Changing Policies

Robert’s Rules of Order, Support for Online Civic Deliberation, E-Liberate is created

online version, E-Liberate is created

Robinson, David G., How This Book Is Organized, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, About the Authors

Robustness Principle (Postel), Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

robustness principle for government, A Robustness Principle for Government

Routesy (iPhone app), Data Is the “Intel Inside”

RSS feeds, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

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satellites, Government As a Platform

scaling mechanism, democracy as, Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism, Increasing Scale, Increasing Formalization

Schacht, Sarah, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Schaper, Nick, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Schrier, Bill, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Schuler, Douglas, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Schultze, Stephen, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use

screen scraping, Screen Scraping Congress

search engines, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Toward a Findable Government

inaccessibility of government data to, Toward a Findable Government

search for Jim Gray, Conclusion

search, advanced, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

secrecy culture in federal agencies, Changing the Culture Within Government

secrecy, avoiding with access to public information, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), EDGAR database, By the People, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

forced to make data available over Internet, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

SeeClickFix company, A Robustness Principle for Government

self-government, Informal Self-Government

informal, evolution of, Informal Self-Government

self-organization, The Coasean Collapse, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

Coasean collapse and, The Coasean Collapse

precondition to government as platform, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

self-service replacements for government functions, A Robustness Principle for Government

semi-structured messages, Support for Online Civic Deliberation

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

FOIA request denials after, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

service-oriented architecture, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

data-driven, for government, Practical Steps for Government Agencies

service-oriented architecture (Amazon), Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

sharing of information among government agencies, Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing)

shelfware, A Peace Corps for Programmers

ShovelWatch project, Crowdsourcing in Action

Sifry, Micah L., How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

Skype, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

social capital, harnessing, Harnessing Social Capital

social media, Government As a Platform, Government As a Platform, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation, Open Data and Open Government, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees, Conclusion, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration, Revealing Obscured Government Data, Conclusion, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion, An Alternative, Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing), Gov→Media→People, Concerns About Security and Productivity

(see also Tweet Congress)

emergence of social networks among government employees, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

entrepreneurial insurgency and use by minority party, Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People, Conclusion

government employees’ use of, GovLoop and BRIDGE: Networks for Government Employees, Conclusion

guidelines for use by Utah state government employees, Concerns About Security and Productivity

information flow on government activities, Gov→Media→People

information on legislative process, Revealing Obscured Government Data

information sharing about participants, Ethically Questionable Information (Sharing)

people coming together to work for change, An Alternative

success of Web 2.0, Government As a Platform

use by federal government agencies, Open Data and Open Government

use by government agencies, Government As a Platform

user participation and co-creation of value, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

social relations, human capability for, Informal Self-Government

Society of Professional Journalists, The Act and Amendments

South Carolina, public disclosure of campaign finances, State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges

standards reference model, Order from Chaos: The Standards Reference Model, The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model

Constitution as, The Constitution As a Standards Reference Model

Stanford University students confronting Condoleezza Rice, Crowdsourcing in Action

state legislatures, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email

communications with constituents, Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email

websites for, Constitutional Guidance: Avoid Secrecy Via Access

state political offices, campaign finance, Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org (see political donor data, accessing)

state politics, Other Tools

MAPLight.org data on money and politics, Other Tools

StationStops (iPhone app), Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

stocks options for executives, backdating of, Crowdsourcing in Action

stovepipe antipattern, The First Constitution

Sunlight Foundation, Creating a Developer Corps, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, This Is the Mashable Now, The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency, Policy, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

Apps for America, Creating a Developer Corps

Congressional earmarks bubble charts, Policy

Fortune 535 Project, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

Read the Bill Initiative, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

Transparency Corps, This Is the Mashable Now

Transparency Timeline, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled

Sunstein, Cass, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Superfund sites, Conclusion

Swartz, Aaron, How This Book Is Organized, About the Author

T

Talking Points Memo (TPM) sites, Crowdsourcing in Action

Tapscott, Don, Foreword

targeted transparency, Targeted Transparency, Conclusion

conclusion on current efforts, Conclusion

Tauberer, Joshua, How This Book Is Organized, Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way, About the Author, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control (see GovTrack.us case study)

Tauzin, Billy, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government

taxis versus cosmos, Limiting Factors and the Internet

TC effect, Impact

TCP/IP, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

as example of government-funded project, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

OSI model and, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

platform components used by Tim Berners-Lee, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, The Culture of Bureaucracies and Homeland Security, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

FOIA request denials afterward, Exemptions, Denials, and Delays

terrorist watch list, problems with, Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils

text visualization, From Policy to Politicians

Thaler, Richard, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Themis Constitution, The Themis Constitution

THOMAS system (Library of Congress), Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way

Thomas.gov website, Meeting Modern-Day Needs, Opening Legislative Data

topic analysis, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

Torvalds, Linus, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

town hall meetings, online, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?

trademark and patent database, Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man

transparency, A Robustness Principle for Government, Open Government and Open Society, Conclusion, Transparency’s Moment?, The Missing Diagnosis, The Missing Diagnosis, Targeted Transparency, Targeted Transparency, A Matter of Politics, Conclusion, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled, Barriers to Transparency, When Is Transparency Useful?, An Alternative, When Is Transparency Useful?, Generating Databases for the Public, Interpreting Databases for the Public, Interpreting Databases for the Public, An Alternative, Framing the Window, Conclusion, Government Transparency: Three Hurdles, Transparent Transparency

barriers to government transparency, Barriers to Transparency, Government Transparency: Three Hurdles

design principle, meaning in technology context, A Robustness Principle for Government

diagnosing problem solved by, The Missing Diagnosis

efforts at targeted transparency, conclusions on, Conclusion

examples of application in private sector, Targeted Transparency

federal government changes needed for, Framing the Window, Conclusion

fight for, social media and, Social Media and the Fight for Transparency

movement for, Transparency’s Moment?

open society and, The Missing Diagnosis

political opposition to targeted transparency, A Matter of Politics

Sunlight Foundation, Transparency Timeline, The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled

targeted, Targeted Transparency

in technical systems underlying open government, Transparent Transparency

when it’s useful, When Is Transparency Useful?, An Alternative, When Is Transparency Useful?, Generating Databases for the Public, Interpreting Databases for the Public, Interpreting Databases for the Public, An Alternative

generating public databases, Generating Databases for the Public

interpreting databases for the public, Interpreting Databases for the Public

lack of investigation and enforcement, Interpreting Databases for the Public

people coming together to work for change, An Alternative

sharing documents with public, When Is Transparency Useful?

Transparency and Open Government memo (Obama), Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government

transport layer (Layer 4) of OSI model, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

treemaps, Policy

Triangle Shirtwaist fire, By the People

Tweet Congress, Case Study: Tweet Congress, Conclusion, Building the App, Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now, So, Who Gets It?, Impact, Congress Tweets, Too

building the application, Building the App

Congressional supporters of Tweet Congress and Twitter use, So, Who Gets It?

getting elected representatives on Twitter, Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now

impact on social media use by government, Impact

Twitter, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Congress Tweets, Too, Utah’s Multimedia Portal Leverages Web 2.0 Services

Congress members on, Congress Tweets, Too

as example of simple system, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

openness of updates, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

Utah Twitter page aggregating government feeds, Utah’s Multimedia Portal Leverages Web 2.0 Services

typed messages, Support for Online Civic Deliberation

U

U.S.S. Nimitz diagrams, Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government

Udell, Jon, Policy

unemployment rate in 2009, My Data Can’t Tell You That

Uniform Crime Reports (FBI), Federal Data: Approximations Galore

Unix, open source design, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

unreadable software formats, Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology

USASpending.gov, This Is the Mashable Now, My Data Can’t Tell You That, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results, Appointing the first federal CIO, Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending

government data accuracy and, My Data Can’t Tell You That

recovery funds spending, Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results

user analytics for government IT products, User Analytics

user feedback, Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem

user participation and creation of value, Government As a Platform, Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation

Utah.gov case study, A Historical Perspective, Conclusion, What Today’s Landscape Looks Like, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government, The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools, Making Data More Accessible, Making Data More Accessible, Concerns About Security and Productivity

champions in all branches of state government, Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government

concerns about security and productivity, Concerns About Security and Productivity

current online services and government transparency, What Today’s Landscape Looks Like

making data more accessible, Making Data More Accessible

shift to Web 2.0 principles and tools, The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools, Making Data More Accessible

V

vending machine government, Government As a Platform

Vermont, virtual corporations, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations

Viégas, Fernanda, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

virtual corporations, One Click Orgs and Virtual Corporations

visual literacy, Visual Literacy

visualization, Case Study: Many Eyes, Conclusion, Policy, From Policy to Politicians

of policy, Policy

of politicians, From Policy to Politicians

visualization tools for government data, Providing for Reuse and Innovation

Vogels, Werner, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve

votes of Congress members, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

Congress Votes database, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

voting records in Senate in XML, Changing Policy from the Outside

W

Wall Street Journal, Crowdsourcing in Action

Washington Post, Congress Votes database, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

Washington Times, Crowdsourcing in Action

Washington’s golden rule, Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule (see money, influence on government)

Wattenberg, Martin, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

Web 2.0, Government As a Platform, Data Is the “Intel Inside”, Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?, The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools, Making Data More Accessible

importance of data and algorithms producing value from it, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

lessons for opening process of co-creating government, Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?

Utah state government shift to principles and tools, The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools, Making Data More Accessible

Web 2.0 revolution in government, Deploying Twenty-First-Century Technology, Deploying Twenty-First-Century Technology, Conclusion, Appointing the first federal CIO, Encouraging data mashups

appointment of first Federal CIO, Appointing the first federal CIO

deploying 21st-century technology, Deploying Twenty-First-Century Technology

encouraging data mashups, Encouraging data mashups

webcasting of Congressional hearings, By the People

websites (finished) for government data, Why Bother with Bulk?

Weil, David, How This Book Is Organized, About the Authors

White House website, Open For Questions area, Crowdsourcing in Action

White House, Data.gov initiative, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth

wiki, New Technologies and Civic Life

WikiLeaks.org, Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research

Wikipedia, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, A Robustness Principle for Government

crowdsourcing on, A Robustness Principle for Government

wikis, Providing for Reuse and Innovation, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

enabling collaboration among government employees, Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration

Willis, Derek, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

“Wintel” duopoly of Microsoft and Intel, Data Is the “Intel Inside”

wisdom of crowds, Barack Obama and, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds, Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?, Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”, Recovery.gov Site Still Under Construction, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?, Open Data and Open Government, Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?

Change.gov transition site, Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov

government spending on economic crisis, watching over, “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”

online town hall, Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”?

open data and open government, Open Data and Open Government

opening up process of co-creating government, Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision?

Recovery.gov site (under construction), Recovery.gov Site Still Under Construction

word tree visualization, From Policy to Politicians

World Wide Web, Government As a Platform, Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

implementation by Tim Berners-Lee, Lesson 3: Design for Participation

platform enabling participation, Government As a Platform

use as tool to revolutionize business, Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers”

Wyoming, campaign finance disclosure legislation, Accessing Political Donor Data Fraught with Problems

X

XML, Use XML to disseminate data, Changing Policy from the Outside, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

Congressional voting records in, Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control

roll call voting records in Senate, Changing Policy from the Outside

using to disseminate government information, Use XML to disseminate data

Y

YouTube, Lesson 3: Design for Participation, I YouTube, You YouTube, Crowdsourcing in Action, Crowdsourcing in Action

use by Republican Congressional members, I YouTube, You YouTube

video of Condoleezza Rice at Stanford University, Crowdsourcing in Action

video of Senator George Allen making racial slur, Crowdsourcing in Action

Yu, Harlan, How This Book Is Organized, Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve, About the Authors, RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use