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Policy
There have been other advancements, from providing online access to White House staff financial reports and salaries, adopting a tough new state secrets policy, reversing an executive order that previously limited access to presidential records, and web-casting White House meetings and conferences.
Kundra: The core principles are using open standards, presenting raw data, and distributing it in as many formats as possible. Public policy decisions are made using the data anyway, but the raw data is important because if it is massaged too much, you can lose the big issues. Wired: Sometimes more data confuses rather than clarifies, especially if it's raw or presented in some clumsy spreadsheet, which is typically how government data has been released in the past, if at all.
Quigley's interviewees ended up ranging from the White House's head of the Open Gov initiative, Beth Noveck, to Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media. To learn more about the interviews and process, check out Delib's page on the film . "On a visit to Washington to see our partners NAPA back in November," writes Quigley on the Delib blog, "I thought it would be fun to interview a few of the Open Gov people I'd read about and worked with over the last 12 months...
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