Open Government Innovation Collectif Etc, | Architecture, espace public et urbanisme participatif. Vers une fabrique citoyenne de la ville. OpenPlans | Helping cities work better. Crowd Planning Brings Collaboration Into Urban Design [My Ideal City] PSFK chats with John Geraci of DIYCity, about how crowd planning is impacting city development. As part of our series looking at the future of cities, PSFK reached out to experts to get their take on key trends we’ve identified that are currently affecting urban environments. John Geraci is the founder of DIYCity, a site where people from all over the world think about, talk about, and ultimately build tools for making their cities work better with web technologies. He spoke with PSFK.com about how crowd planned solutions are lowering the barriers to participation and empowering citizens to design their own communities. Why is it important that citizens play an integral part in planning their cities? A city’s residents are the only ones who really get the problems and challenges of cities at the first person level. How do you see the trend of crowd planning developing over time? What advantages do crowd-led methods of urban planning have over more traditional practices? DIY City MyIdealCity
Open Government - Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners, September 1, 2010, Whitehorse, Yukon Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners September 1, 2010, Whitehorse, Yukon Calls for greater openness and transparency are exerting increasing pressure on governments to transform their traditional, reactive information dissemination methods into a mode that facilitates proactive disclosure. Technology now affords public institutions the opportunity to directly engage citizens, to proactively disclose information and to support the renewal of the social contract between government and citizens. Open government is linked to access to information legislation. Access to information and privacy commissioners are advocates for open government and promote the paradigm shift from reactive to proactive disclosure, and ultimately to open government. The basic tenets of a sound open government strategy are: Commitment of governments at all levels to lead a cultural change conducive to open government. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Open Government Initiative Open Data Policy Guidance to better manage Federal information as an asset to make it more open, accessible, and usable by the public. Executive Order on Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information The President’s Executive Order on making Federal Government information more open and accessible to promote economic growth and government efficiency. National Action Plan for the United States of America These Open Government efforts are now entering a new phase, as we collaborate with other countries in the global Open Government Partnership. Informing Consumers through Smart Disclosure Memorandum: The purpose of this Memorandum is to set out guidance for agencies to inform and facilitate the use of disclosure, specifically "smart disclosure." Commitment to Open Government Status Report The President’s Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government Open Innovation Memo The Open Government Directive PRA Primer Social Media and the PRA Data.Gov Concept of Operations
The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes | Challenge.gov Write or Call the White House President Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history. That begins with taking comments and questions from you, the public, through our website. Call the President Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 Comments: 202-456-6213 Visitor's Office: 202-456-2121 Write a letter to the President Here are a few simple things you can do to make sure your message gets to the White House as quickly as possible. 1. 2. 3. 4. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
Data Visualization Platform, Weave, Now Open Source | Civic Commons With more and more civic data becoming available and accessible, the challenge grows for policy makers and citizens to leverage that data for better decision-making. It is often difficult to understand context and perform analysis. “Weave”, however, helps. A web-based data visualization tool, Weave enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time. We saw tremendous potential in the platform and have been helping open-source the software, advising on community engagement strategy and licensing. Weave is the result of a broad partnership: it was developed by the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachussetts Lowell, with support from the Open Indicators Consortium, which is made up of over ten municipal, regional, and state member organizations. Early-adopter data geeks should give it a spin. Our congratulations and thanks to the Weave team! About Karl Fogel
What is Open311? | Open311 Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized protocol for location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311 systems that many cities in North America offer. Unlike the synchronous one-to-one communication of a 311 call center, Open311 technologies use the internet to enable these interactions to be asynchronous and many-to-many. This means that several different people can openly exchange information centered around a single public issue. The Open Model An Open Model Provides Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration. Currently, the most developed function of Open311 technologies is to report and track non-emergency issues in public spaces. The Open Technology Open Technology Provides a Standard Interface and Sharable Innovation.
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State Legislatures as "Laboratories Of Democracy" Listening to what passes these days for debates in the U. S House of Representatives and the U. S. The dimming of the vigor and effectiveness of the national legislature is placing a new focus on state legislators, who for so long were regarded as poor cousins to their national counterparts in Washington. For years, most state legislatures were in session for only a short few months each year or, in some cases, met only every other year. While there remain legislatures not far removed from those practices, a growing number of states have adopted longer annual sessions. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis envisioned the state legislatures as "laboratories of democracy" willing to tackle new and innovative approaches in meeting the needs of society. The Executive Director of the Center for Policy Alternatives - Tim McFeeley - is enthusiastic about what some state legislatures can and have accomplished while the U. For more information about a progressive agenda: www.stateaction.org