Subscribe to my feed
E-PluribusUnum.org- Continued use of personal email and encrypted messaging in White House exposes accountability hole in public records lawsIn 2019, journalists, politicians and pundits shouldn’t be asking whether White House officials should using WhatsApp. If a given encrypted or ephemeral app does not have archiving built in, public servants should not use it for public business, much less … Continue reading →
- US House hearing on transparency misses the open government forest for the FOIA treesWhen sunshine is applied to government, what’s revealed can be determined by the eye of the beholder. After the 115th Congress neglected oversight of open government, the U.S. House Oversight Committee held a hearing on the Freedom of Information Act … Continue reading →
- US government officials and Congressmen praise open government during Sunshine Week in DCCelebrating Sunshine Week is off to a good start in the nation’s capitol, but not without some shadows along the way. Good morning from DC! #SunshineWeek is here, & I’m headed into a National Freedom of Information Day Conference. https://t.co/HTrKUjgoTo … Continue reading →
- Shadows and celebrations for Sunshine Week 2019Sunshine Week 2019 may officially begin on March 10, but it’s unofficially kicking off tomorrow with the National Freedom of Information Day Conference at the Newseum in DC. For those unfamiliar with this annual celebration of open government around the … Continue reading →
- Open Government Partnership IRM finds backsliding in the USAThis White House’s decision to continue U.S. government participation in the Open Government Partnership was far from certain, given the demonstrated distaste of the Trump administration for international agreements and institutions. In that context, The Trump administration’s commitment to participating … Continue reading →
- After years of delays and democratic regression, USA releases weak open government planIf the American public wants to see meaningful progress on transparency, accountability or ethics in U.S. government, it should call on Congress to act, not the Trump White House. With little fanfare or notice, the United States of America has … Continue reading →
- The state of open government (data) remains divided, at risk, and underfundedWhat’s next for open data in the United States? That was the open question posed at the Center for Data Innovation (CDI) last week, where a panel of industry analysts and experts gathered to discuss the historic open government data … Continue reading →
- Livestreaming ban in Tennessee House shows how power can limit the right to recordLivestreaming is not new to American politics in 2019. presidential candidates started using uStream in 2008. But it is much easier than ever before. Recent advances in smartphones and wirelesss Internet access have radically improved the capacity of politicians and … Continue reading →
- Open government data complements FOI laws, but it cannot replace themIn March 2018, three public policy scholars posted a provocative question: could the open government movement shut the door on freedom of information? At the time, I let it flow without refuting it from the Sunlight Foundation’s platform, but it’s … Continue reading →
- President Trump signs historic open government data bill into lawToday, President Donald J. Trump signed H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, which, as the White House release summarized, “improves evidence-based policy through strengthening Federal agency evaluation capacity; furthering interagency data sharing and open data efforts; and … Continue reading →
- Continued use of personal email and encrypted messaging in White House exposes accountability hole in public records laws
Recent Comments
- Articles at Govfresh
- Should the White House be spending time making animated GIFs?Earlier today, however, a mechanical engineer named Claudio Ibarra commented on a Google+ thread that he thought that the animated GIF was a "waste."
- Beware openwashing. Question secrecy. Acknowledge ideology.You could spend a long day listing all of the organizations or individuals who are putting government data online, from Carl Malamud to open government activists in Brazil, Africa or Canada.
- What is the ROI of open government?Putting a dollar value on clean water, stable markets, the quality of schooling or access to the judiciary is no easy task. Each of these elements of society, however, are to some extent related to and enabled by open government. If we think about how the fundamental democratic principles established centuries ago extend today purely […]
- Cameras in the courtroom: Will SCOTUS ever go live online?In an age where setting up a livestream to the Web and the rest of the networked world is as easy as holding up a smartphone and making a few taps, the United States Supreme Court appears more uniformly opposed to adding cameras in the courtroom than ever.
- Samantha Power: OGP is President Obama’s signature governance initiativeOn January 10th, 2013, the OpenGov Hub officially launched in Washington, DC. The OpenGov Hub has similarities to incubators and accelerators, in terms of physically housing different organizations in one location, but focuses on scaling open government and building community, as opposed to scaling a startup and building a business. Samantha Power, special a […]
- Should the White House be spending time making animated GIFs?
- Articles at Radar
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
