Open Data, Open Government and the Guise of Transparency
Technology and Transparency: Data Needs a Cultural Context Per a conversation with Alex Howard on Google+, I have read " Beyond Technology for Transparency ". The author makes several points: The Yu and Robinson article " The New Ambiguity of 'Open Government '" was something I read a few weeks ago. I disagree that the edge of open government is going away. Yes there are data sets being published that have nothing to do with accountability. Yes there are open data initiatives that stand up a few data sets and call it "open". This does not mean that all or most open data professionals do this. This whole line of "government versus the people" is one of the reasons PSA's have trouble getting open data initiatives launched in the first place. David Sasaki makes good points at the end of his blog post. Open data should strive to reduce poverty, corruption and and reduce operational inefficiencies. This will not happen with just transpar