Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems for the 21st century, and providing details of how a range of governments around the world are doing so.
The paper is titled "Evolving democracy for the 21st Century" and is available from her blog.
Through a combination of improved transparency and accountability, the public release of data in reusable formats and the willingness to openly collaborate with individuals, not-for-profits and companies in using that data and thinking from outside public services to develop new policy insights, governments today have the most significant opportunity in over a hundred years to reframe their relationships with their constituents and draw on the wisdom of the crowd to improve policy outcomes and services.
I hope the opportunity is not squandered.
The paper is titled "Evolving democracy for the 21st Century" and is available from her blog.
Through a combination of improved transparency and accountability, the public release of data in reusable formats and the willingness to openly collaborate with individuals, not-for-profits and companies in using that data and thinking from outside public services to develop new policy insights, governments today have the most significant opportunity in over a hundred years to reframe their relationships with their constituents and draw on the wisdom of the crowd to improve policy outcomes and services.
I hope the opportunity is not squandered.
Hi Craig,
ReplyDeleteA good piece on Open data and thanks for the pointer to it. I note that the url you gave (http://www.blogger.com/bit.ly/spiJcp) however, was incorrect and should be http://bit.ly/spiJcp.