Just barely started this one so no comment yet. Going to see Newsom speak at Dominican University on March 7th. More on this later.
6-21-13 While I don't always agree with Newsom, I found the book quite provocative in its indictment of our current governmental systems as bastions of Luddite driven bureaucracy, certainly not capable of engaging 21st century Gen X citizens. Citizens (and government officials) need better access to information. Government 2.0 is about improving constructive and well informed public engagement through enhanced digital access to information that is...
- Searchable & Indexed (not in static pdf docs!!!)
- Accessible via any device or platform through open source systems (Device Agnostic)
- Share-able - not limited by onerous copyright restrictions (an alternative would be to use Creative Commons licencing agreements); not locked down with restrictions that impede re-use of the information - should be "remixable" or "mashable" via opensource API's (Application Programming Language); connected to public feedback systems (blog comments and other social media tools)
- Free - the government should not charge for access or licence sole rights to the information to a third party distributor that can charge for access.
A few additional resources in this arena:
- 2009 White House Open Government Directive http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/documents/open-government-directive
- Open Government Foundation
- Sunlight Foundation
- Knight Foundation's Community Information Challenge
- Open Government Platform
- Open Government Data
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