« I’ll be on Federal News Radio Monday on how Obama could use data | Home | VITAL: IF BIN LADEN PLANS “THE BIG ONE” YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON THIS! »
What I said about transparency on Federal News Radio
By WDavidStephenson | November 11, 2008
In case you weren’t able to tune in, this is what I said yesterday on Federal News Radio about transparency and the potential benefits to the Obama Administration.
IMHO, the critical thing is to not view transparency as an add-on program that people might fear would increase costs at a time of record deficits, but as part of a carefully-integrated program, modeled on what DC is doing, that would also provide real-time structured data behind the firewall.
It would give federal workers, for the first time, access to real-time data (the same data that would be available to watchdog groups such as the Sunlight Foundation and entrepreneurs who could use it to create new services) that they desperately need to do their jobs more effectively in hard times. It will help them break down arbitrary boundaries between agencies and programs, find synergies and redundancies, and encourage collaboration and emergence of wisdom of the crowds. We can’t afford not to launch these programs.
Technorati tags:
publicdata public data dataviz government transparency e-gov e-government 2.0 e-government transparent government e-democracy government IT government transition Obama Sunlight Foundation
Topics: technology, empowering public, policy and politics, collaboration, e-gov transformation | |
