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Chapter 1 A Peace Corps for Programmers |
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Tipping Point: The Extinction of Pencils |
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Competition Is Critical to Any Ecosystem |
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Creating a Developer Corps |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 2 Government As a Platform |
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Government As a Platform |
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Lesson 1: Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth |
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Lesson 2: Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve |
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Lesson 3: Design for Participation |
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A Robustness Principle for Government |
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Lesson 4: Learn from Your “Hackers” |
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Lesson 5: Data Mining Allows You to Harness Implicit Participation |
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Lesson 6: Lower the Barriers to Experimentation |
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Lesson 7: Lead by Example |
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Practical Steps for Government Agencies |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 3 By the People |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 4 The Single Point of Failure |
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The Closed Model of Decision Making |
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New Technologies and Civic Life |
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Participatory Democratic Theory in the Age of Networks |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 5 Engineering Good Government |
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The Articles of Confederation and the Stovepipe Antipattern |
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Continued Maintenance: The Blob and Confederacy |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 6 Enabling Innovation for Civic Engagement |
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Citizen Initiatives Lead the Way |
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Providing for Reuse and Innovation |
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Data Authenticity Down the Line |
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Why Bother with Bulk? |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 7 Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence |
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Definitions and Assertions |
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Democracy, Deliberation, and the Internet |
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Findings and Issues |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 8 Open Government and Open Society |
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Transparency’s Moment? |
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The Dark Side of Open Government |
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The Missing Diagnosis |
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Targeted Transparency |
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A Matter of Politics |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 9 “You Can Be the Eyes and Ears”: Barack Obama and the Wisdom of Crowds |
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Change.gov Shows How to Change the Gov |
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“You Can Be the Eyes and Ears” |
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Recovery.gov Site Still Under Construction |
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Online Town Hall or “Participation Theater”? |
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Open Data and Open Government |
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Co-creation, Co-optation, or Collision? |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 10 Two-Way Street: Government with the People |
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Pockets of Excellence: The Goverati |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 11 Citizens’ View of Open Government |
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The First “We President” |
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The Internet Has Made Us Lazy |
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Toward a Findable Government |
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Advanced Citizenship |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 12 After the Collapse: Open Government and the Future of Civil Service |
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The Coasean Collapse |
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The Long Tail of Public Policy |
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Patch Culture |
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The End of Objectivity |
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Two Preconditions to Government As Platform: Capacity for Self-Organization and Collaboration |
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Extend the Network |
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The Next Civil Service Culture: The Gift Economy |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 13 Democracy, Under Everything |
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Many Voices, Many Messages, One Government |
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My Idea |
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Revealing Obscured Government Data |
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Improving Communication without Being Crushed by Email |
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How to Improve Civic Engagement |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 14 Emergent Democracy |
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Democracy As a Scaling Mechanism |
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Limiting Factors and the Internet |
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Building an Emergent Democracy |
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The Road to Emergent Democracy |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 15 Case Study: Tweet Congress |
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Tweet Congress: Build an App, Start a Movement |
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Starting the Movement: We Are All Lobbyists Now |
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So, Who Gets It? |
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Impact |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 16 Entrepreneurial Insurgency: Republicans Connect With the American People |
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Entrepreneurial Insurgency and Congress |
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Congress Tweets, Too |
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I YouTube, You YouTube |
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Social Media and the Fight for Transparency |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 17 Disrupting Washington’s Golden Rule |
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The Bad Old Days: When Insiders Ruled |
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This Is the Mashable Now |
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What Comes Next |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 18 Case Study: GovTrack.us |
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Opening Legislative Data |
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Screen Scraping Congress |
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Engaging the GovTrack Community |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 19 Case Study: FollowTheMoney.org |
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Accessing Political Donor Data Fraught with Problems |
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The National Institute on Money in State Politics’ Role in the Fight for Greater Transparency |
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Bolstering the Spirit of Public Disclosure Laws |
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State-Level Transparency Faces Serious Challenges |
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In an Ideal World: Recommendations for Open Data |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 20 Case Study: MAPLight.org |
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Why We Founded MAPLight.org |
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MAPLight.org’s Unique Contribution |
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Nuts and Bolts: Using MAPLight.org |
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Barriers to Transparency |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 21 Going 2.0: Why OpenSecrets.org Opted for Full Frontal Data Sharing |
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The Decision to Let Go of the Data |
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It’s Not Easy Being Open |
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Creating a New Model for Transparency |
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The Future Is Now |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 22 All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data |
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Liberating Government Data: Carl Malamud Versus the Man |
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Disclosing Government Data: Paper Versus the Internet |
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Accessing Government Data: Open Distribution Versus Jealous Control |
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Demanding Government Data: Public Money Versus Private Research |
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RECAP: Freeing PACER Documents for Public Use |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 23 Case Study: Many Eyes |
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Policy |
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From Policy to Politicians |
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Visual Literacy |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 24 My Data Can’t Tell You That |
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The How and Why of Data Collection |
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Federal Data: Approximations Galore |
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Good Data Doesn’t Mean Good Results |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 25 When Is Transparency Useful? |
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Sharing Documents with the Public |
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Generating Databases for the Public |
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Interpreting Databases for the Public |
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An Alternative |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 26 Transparency Inside Out |
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Complexity Creates Opacity |
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Transparency, Meet Institutional Inertia |
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Kaleidoscope IT: One-Off Apps Obscure Information |
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A Market Focused on Proposals, Not Products |
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Framing the Window |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 27 Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government |
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Government Transparency: Three Hurdles |
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Putting It All Together: Disclosure of Federal Spending |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 28 Toads on the Road to Open Government Data |
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What Is Government? |
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Data Collection |
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Exposing the Soul of Government |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 29 Open Government: The Privacy Imperative |
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Privacy-Enhancing Practices |
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Conclusion |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 30 Freedom of Information Acts: Promises and Realities |
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The Act and Amendments |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 31 Gov→Media→People |
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Crowdsourcing in Action |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 32 Open Source Software for Open Government Agencies |
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Advantages of FLOSS for Government and Public Agencies |
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Best Practices: Management |
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Best Practices: Technical |
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Best Practices: Social |
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Make It Easy to Experiment and Learn |
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Conclusion |
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References |
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About the Authors |
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Chapter 33 Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government |
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Badly Used Technology Hinders Progress |
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The Digital Age Explained |
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Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology |
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The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies |
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Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Chapter 34 Case Study: Utah.gov |
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A Historical Perspective |
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What Today’s Landscape Looks Like |
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Champions Discovered in All Branches of State Government |
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The Dramatic Shift to Web 2.0 Principles and Tools |
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Making Data More Accessible |
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Conclusion |
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About the Author |
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Appendix Memo from President Obama on Transparency and Open Government |
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Colophon |
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