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I’ll be on Federal News Radio Monday on how Obama could use data
By WDavidStephenson | November 9, 2008
Hi. Back after a prolonged absence (frankly, blogging seems so 2006: in the past year I’ve done nearly 4,000 tweet on Twitter, compared to an ever-declining number of blog posts). We’ll see if I can do both..
At any rate, wanted to give you a heads up that on Monday I’ll be on Federal News Radio, AM 1500 in the DC area, and online to talk with host Chris Dorobek about how, given the historic low levels of trust in government and record high deficits Obama will inherit, one of the best strategies he can try will be to dramatically expand the number of structured data feeds the federal government releases, both externally and internally.
Why? Because internally, feeds in formats such as RSS and KML will give (for the first time) many federal employees the real-time information they need to do their jobs more efficiently, as well as breaking down “silos” within and between agencies, so they can collaborate more effectively, uncover costly redundancies, etc., allowing government to get more with less.
Meanwhile, by releasing the data externally, and providing data visualization tools similar to those available from Swivel and Many Eyes, the Obama Administration will be able to directly involve the general public in policy debates and even soliciting bright ideas (as the UK Government has done with the Show Us a Better Way competition and the District of Columbia, with its Apps for Democracy one!). I’m encouraged that his white paper on technology and transparency during the campaign specifically mentioned data feeds, and now I’ll prod him to follow through!
Hope you can listen in on the radio or on the web.
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