Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Birokrasi
Information!
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Level Of Complexity
Augmented Reality Driven
CPS
PLC Driven Robots
End of 18th Century End of 19th Century Q4 of 20th Century Start of 21th Century
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Benefits of an Open government through IT
• Information technology
• Globalization of issues/markets
• Knowledge-based economies
• Public-private partnerships
• Public expectations
US – Open Government
UK – Smarter Government
• Lead
White House Office of Management and Budget in collaboration with Chief Technology Officer
and Chief Information Officer
• Key Milestones
- Jan. 21, 2009: Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government for the Heads of Executive
Departments and Agencies
- May 21-July 26: Consultation Process
- Dec. 8, 2009: Open Government Directive and Cabinet Commitments (20 dataset release projects)
- December 2009 Progress Report to the American People
The President’s
SAVE Award
UK – Smarter Government
• Objectives
Radically opening up data and public information, releasing thousands of public data sets and
making them free for re-use
• Lead
Office of Public Sector Information, Information Commissioners, and Cabinet Office
• Key Milestones
- 2007: Power of Information Review
- February-March 2009: Wiki-based report of Power of Information Taskforce, with dedicated
blog
- March 2009: Initial response from government in the Strategic Government section of
“Working Together – Public Services on your side”
- Dec. 7, 2009: Speech delivered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Smarter Government
• Projects
“Show Us a Better Way” contest; data.gov.uk; several Web 2.0 projects from outside government:
e.g. MySociety.org; FixMYStreet.com; TheyWorkForYou.com; PatientOpinion.com
Australia – Government 2.0
• Objectives
“Build a public service that is smarter, more responsive, more strategic and personally
rewarding
• Key Milestone
December 2009: Government 2.0 taskforce’s report “Engage: getting on with Government 2.0
datalibre.ca
urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens
Stimulus Watch.ca
Canadians helping Canadians help government
The Way Forward
Leadership
Coordinating body
Clear accountabilities
Clear targets embedding the three laws of Open
Government
Open government data must be:
1. Spidered or indexed to exist;
2. Available in open and machine readable format to engage; and
3. In a legal framework to allow it to be repurposed to empower.
− David Eaves, Canadian expert in public policy and open source and network systems
Engagement