This looks great Josh! I wonder if there's any way you would consider alluding to the OKD in the body of the text, as well as towards the end?
E.g. by saying OKD compliance is a necessary but not sufficient condition for open government data? Jonathan On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Josh Tauberer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all. I'm sorry I haven't had the time to say much here, though I've > tried to watch the progress. Over the last several months I've been writing > an essay- > > Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for "Open Government Data" > http://razor.occams.info/pubdocs/opendataciviccapital.html > > -which addresses a small portion of the issues that have come up in this > group, so I thought I would share it here. The motivation to write this > started at Transparency Camp [1] a few months ago, and at the end of the > conference Gunnar Hellekson of Red Hat, and later I, decided to take on the > project of bringing together a repository of best-practices guides for > technology’s role in an open government. (We have a wiki page for the > project [2] which lists some of the guides we’d like to see written.) > > The goal of Open Data is Civic Capital was 1) to motivate why open > government data isn’t just an ideological issue but actually makes society > more powerful, and can really make the world a better place, and 2) to > outline some suggested priorities and recommendations for open government > data, drawing on the recommendations of a number of past groups. The essay > begins: > > “Creating a well-informed public is a core value of representative > government. It is a prerequisite for ensuring the best representatives are > elected and a crucial component of government oversight—as well as being > important in areas well beyond civics. This document speaks to why public > government data (also called ‘public sector information’) is a valuable > resource to society if put on the Web and shared freely with the public, and > discusses how to go about doing it. We discuss technological considerations > and end with sixteen guiding principles for best practices in open > government data.” > > Hopefully you find this useful/informative (as opposed to spam :-). > > [1] http://transparencycamp.org/ > [2] http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php/Best_Practices > > -- > - Josh Tauberer > - GovTrack.us > > http://razor.occams.info > > "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields > falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to > Tortoise (in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter) > > > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
