Two unlikely allies are driving one of the most significant changes in the way the public engages in public policy: Barack Obama and Michael Bloomberg.
cnn.com | Posted 12.28.2009 | Technology
Welcome to a movement the tech crowd is calling "Gov 2.0" -- where mobile technology and GPS apps are helping give citizens like Craig Newmark, founde...
CNET News | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology
If you're not familiar with her--and few outside her specific professional and social circles would be--Noveck, a 38-year-old lawyer originally from T...
Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Government employees sent more than 500,000 text pager messages In the hours before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At 3 a.m. (...
Susannah Vila | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology
It's one thing for a blogger, a media outlet or an advocacy organization to flee a social network for greener pastures, but aren't Congress members using social media for slightly different reasons?
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who sig...
John Geraci | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Open government creates transparency in government, throws out information asymmetries and levels playing fields between ordinary citizens, government agencies and wealthy interest groups.
Avelino Maestas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
The House today is scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that will establish a program to cap em...
Chad Dobson | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
Over the past five months, President Obama has made great strides in improving transparency within the USG. Mr. Zoellick and his team of experts over at the World Bank could stand to learn a thing or two from the U.S. Government.
Jake Brewer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Sometimes the geekiest stuff is the most important. When it comes to creating a more transparent and accountable government, Thursday, May 21, is one...
Craig Newmark | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
The previous Administration told us they weren't interested in feedback from Americans, and followed through. The Obama team is starting from nothing, and building a team which listens to people and will act.
Sarah Newman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Lawrence Lessig, through his group, Change Congress, has already done some of the important legwork to get us involved in removing the influence of special interests in Congress.
Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
When our nation's founders ratified the Bill of Rights 217 years ago today, they knew that justice could not be served in secret, and that punishment doled out in the shadows inexorably leads to illegitimacy.
Leslie Harris | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
The issue of a government-led artificial restriction on access to information has more or less flown under the radar screen but it won't remain that way; it can't.
Sarah Granger | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home
A President Obama would very likely improve on the current approach to transparency, epitomized by a White House site where the latest citizen Q&A was posted on the "interactive" page on 3/26/06.
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 12.31.2009 | Technology