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Digital Government, Participatory Democracy, Open Government, Open Data, Civic Engagement, Social Media for Public Institutions, and more... Curated by Paloma Baytelman

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The Gov Lab Digest

Table of Contents

Mexico City Open Database Improves Transit Efficiency, Helps Commuters

Scientific Expertise and Open Government in the Digital Era

Talent Wants to Be Free. Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

Candy Crush-style game helps scientists fight tree disease

Organizational Innovation in Public Services: Forms and Governance

Regulatory Democracy Reconsidered: The Policy Impact of Public Participation Requirements

E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Public Participation

What future do you want? Commission invites votes on what Europe could look like in 2050 to help steer future policy and research planning

Kansas City Measures Performance through Online Dashboard

New Report: Federal Ideation Program: Challenges and Best Practices

Why Research is Key to mySociety’s Future

Concerns about opening up data, and responses which have proved effective

Findings from the emerging field of Transparency Research

Mirroring the real world in social media: twitter, geolocation, and sentiment analysis

What’s Different that Makes Open Data an Infrastructure?

Open government and conflicts with public trust and privacy: Recent research ideas

Open Government and Its Constraints

Mozilla Location Service: crowdsourcing data to help devices find your location without GPS

When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults

Scientific Humanities

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Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government

What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. 

A lawyer by training and a techie by inclination, Beth Noveck works to build data transparency into government. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/beth_noveck_demand_a_more_open_source_government.html

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The Second Open Government Partnership Summit

via http://techpresident.com/ogpsummit

The goal of the Open Government Partnership is to get governments to make (and carry out) concrete commitments that promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.

How’s that going? At the end of the month about 1,200 OGP participants came together for the initiative's third annual summit. Over the course of the event we shared analyses and documentation of the issues that made it onto the agenda, the lessons learned and the next steps.

Running Posts in the Open Thread:

Last Post! Recommend Resources for More OGP Coverage

Who Knows What the OGP Is? The Challenge of Awareness Building

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted (the IRM Process)

Making Sure Governments Address Uncomfortable Issues

Confronting Privacy and Surveillance

Who’s In the club?: Ideas for Making Requirements Mean More

Here's What it Looks Like When the OGP Process Lacks Accountability

New Tools to Support Advocacy

Is Civil Society on the Same Page?

Nine Things Civil Society Wants To Do in the Coming Year to Improve OGP

Does the OGP Mean Anything without Civil Society Engagement?

What Can Actually Happen During CSO Day? We Ask Paul Maassen

At Civil Society Day, Q&A With Moldova's Veronica Cretu on Local Voices

First Post! 7 Issues to Watch Out For at the OGP

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Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

Beyond Transparency is a cross-disciplinary survey of the open data landscape, in which practitioners share their own stories of what they’ve accomplished with open civic data. It seeks to move beyond the rhetoric of transparency for transparency’s sake and towards action and problem solving. Through these stories, we examine what is needed to build an ecosystem in which open data can become the raw materials to drive more effective decision-making and efficient service delivery, spur economic activity, and empower citizens to take an active role in improving their own communities.

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Italy, a Test Lab for Participatory Democracy

Online platforms for participatory democracy are flourishing in Italy and they are being initiated by civil society and local governments alike. Some of these tools are limited to 'social reporting,'

What do you think?

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Open Data Index

The Open Knowledge Foundation launched the Open Data Index. See what data countries provide to their citizens https://index.okfn.org/

What do you think?