05-27-09 | No Monopoly on Expertise

Last week, the Obama administration unveiled its Open Government Initiative, a set of online tools and a process of public engagement for making its operations more transparent. This podcast takes a look at what it means for citizens and scientists, who are now asked to share their knowledge and ideas.

05-21-09 | Data.gov Launches

Here it is: the much-anticipated online catalog of raw data gathered by the federal government, Data.gov. The site appears the same day that the Obama administration formally declares it’s ready for suggestions from the public on how to be more open and transparent. At launch, Data.gov offers a small, diverse collection of 47 sets of “raw” [...]

04-16-09 | Sunlight Labs Pre-Thinks Data.gov

Sunlight Labs, the web development shop of the Sunlight Foundation, runs an occasional series on “Redesigning the Government,” in which they offer redesign and information architecture advice for federal agencies. Today, they’ve conceived a website that doesn’t yet exist, but that Whitehouse CIO Vivek Kundra has promised is in the works: Data.gov, the central repository [...]

03-05-09 | Open Source, Open Data

The open source development community is ready to help Washington open up. But first they need the data in an open, structured form.

03-02-09 | Dispatch from Transparency Camp: The Tech-Savvy Push for Open Government Can’t Lose Sight of Public Policy Goals

The government transparency movement is waiting for a deluge of public data from Congress and the Obama administration. Developers are ready with open-source software and protocols for structuring data on everything from lobbying disclosures to pending legislation to stimulus allocations. And once the data is free and flowing through RSS feeds, Application Programming Interfaces, and [...]