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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida and Washington D.C. He was a senior researcher on the New York Times bestselling "The Buying of the President 2004" by Charles Lewis. He is a specialist in campaign finance and "computer assisted reporting," the practice of using data analysis to report the news. He writes code in Perl, Python and PHP. He was the primary architect of the data for the Center for Public Integrity's successful Lobbywatch project, which provided the first truly searchable online database of federal lobbying available to the general public. He supervised the data team that developed CPI's Power Trips investigation of Congressional junkets. Klappentext In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation. Contributions and topics include: Beth Simone Noveck , U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure" Jerry Brito , senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data" Aaron Swartz , cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?" Ellen S. Miller , executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule" Carl Malamud , founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People" Douglas Schuler , president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence" Howard Dierking , program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government" Matthew Burton , Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers" Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton , OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government" Tim O'Reilly , founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms" Open Government editors: > Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays, interviews, and case studies that provides a multi-faceted and nonpartisan account of government as it becomes transparent, collaborative, and participatory. Suitable for advocates of openness and e-government, it offers a persuasive argument for transparency and interactivity in government at various levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Chapter 1: A Peace Corps for Programmers Chapter 2: Government As a Platform Chapter 3: By the People Chapter 4: The Single Point of Failure Chapter 5: Engineering Good Government Chapter 6: Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement Chapter 7: Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence Chapter 8: Open Government and Open Society Chapter 9: "You Can Be the Eyes and Ears": Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds Chapter 10: Two-Way Street: Government with the People Chapter 11: Citizens' View of Open Government Chapter 12: After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service Chapter 13: Democracy, Under Everything Chapter 14: Emergent Democracy Chapter 15: Case Study: Tweet Congress Chapter 16: Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American ...
