The really great thing about this piece is that it’s very much in the spirit of and open government. Moore uses an means of finding answers by using Quora. He also uses crowdsourcing, a favorite of open government advocates—include everyone, make their opinions public.
And the responses are expert. One responder notes that a weakness specific to Canadian local government is a focus on technology by the agencies housing records, as opposed to a focus on information delivery. That’s an opinion that identifies remediable problems concretely. It should thus serve as an example to government officials to include us, because .
The piece is definitely worth .
March 25, 2010 by
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I wanted to draw everyones attention to a couple of great local government transparency initiatives. One is on Twitter. It’s got a lot of great information on how people are working at a local level to get government up online.
actually let me to , which is a “tool for cataloging case studies, best practices, and standards for open data and open source on the local level.” It has an amazing database of local open source initiatives, as well as for local governments.