Earlier this year, I accepted an invitation from Canadian Minister of Parliament Tony Clement, the president of Canada’s Treasury Board, to be a member of Canada’s advisory panel on open government, joining others from Canada’s tech industry, the academy and civil society. The first — and only — meeting to date was held via telepresence [...]
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In 2010, only 1 in 6 people lives in countries with a free press, according to a new report on press freedom from Freedom House. There is a long road ahead to establishing and protecting freedom of expression for humanity. Freedom House Survey of Global Media Independence View more presentations from Knight Foundation This week, [...]
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“We’ve had a decade’s worth of news in less than two months,” Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for Politico. In the Saturday edition of Politico’s Playbook, Allen looked back at the Arab Spring and Japanese ongoing challenges: It was Feb. 11 – seven weeks ago — that Mubarak fled the Arab spring, a rolling [...]
Earlier this week, FutureGov Asia published a story arguing that there is no coherent narrative for Gov 2.0. To its authors, it must be said that, respectfully, there is a narrative out there, for those who are willing to search it out and reference it. Readers can find the narrative of collaboratively reported in real-time [...]
Dan Melton and Derek Willis presentations from IOGDC For more on how Code for America is inspiring a new generation of civic coders, tune into the webinar in the linked piece or read techPresident on how developers pledge to connect citizens.
Alexander B. Howard is Radar's Government 2.0 Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics.
