Open Government Mesh’09

Posted by Natasha D'Souza on Apr 7, 2009 in Blog, events | 0 comments

Change Camp and Agenda Camp. How their economies are being transformed. 

Remarkk.com OmakaseGroup.com

The government is not the web. The government is the only use violence to enforce law and order Can have only one government at a time. So how can govt. be the open web? If they are so different in character then how then can they be open. 

Authority (Political) = power + legitimacy

Within a tribal system the tribal leader has this power and the power to exercise it. In the west we have constitutions and rules to elect someone to power. It’s the belief within the system that makes it safe otherwise we have revolutions. 

Accountability = calling to account

Tribal war lord does not face the ballot box but within his system he has a from of accountability. Public official is held in account to answer questions. 

Responsibility = who and how assigned?

Politicians are very concerned with maintaining controlled incase something does not work out. 

Participation = who gets to participate and how?

The ways that laws get made. New generation expects to participate. 

Transparency = more than FOI requests

People want to know more. 

Efficiency = decisions per hour? services delivered for taxes raised?

How does increased public consultation, participation increase the cost. 

Effectiveness = what’s the outcome?

Can hyper scrutiny grind down government to a halt. 

Public services – just make it work

Just want the system to work and how can open achieve that outcome. 

Public Policy = the making of the sausage

Move it towards the public good through elections. 

Social Innovation = the open lab for public good

Happening outside the government. Do ideas that great outside in the world and govt. can act as the investor to scale. How does that relationship gets established. 

Peer to Patent

Backlog at the patent office so crowdsource a group of patents. Analyzing them and enabling to get them through the process a lot quicker. 

NewZeland Police Act

Community can sign up and modify the act. Live document and passed the law. Took down the wiki after a week. 

Octo.dc.gov

Publishes RSS feeds. Tied gps of snow plough to Google Earth. Do what you want with it.

Same with 911 for Seattle. 

211 online

An alternative to 911 so find resources that are alternative to 911. 

Food Onland Ontario

Goes beyond that but interacting with people. 

Is your government open with a twitter account?

Groups work to define it. Follow the conversations online.