Government Hackers - Know These Challenges
- Written by
- Greg
- Date
- 01/28/2009 9:55 a.m.
The value proposition of Web 2.0 changing government is no longer debated. But if you want to be a player improving transparency and democracy, your street cred depends on understanding the real challenge is interoperability with policies and rules created for a federal government whose founders embraced the disruptive technology of their time, the printing press.
The following links are your briefing book...
- Evan Ratliff Wired Magazine article summarizing on what Obama faces to create a Wired Presidency. Read it all.
- WebContent.gov's Social Media and Web 2.0 in Government reference page. Be sure and read Dec 2008's Barriers and Solutions to Implementing Social Media and Web 2.0 in Government
- Federal Web Managers Council's White Paper for Transition Team Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government
- CDT's Ari Swartz on an E-Govt Cookie Policy Part I and Part 2 which the Labs helped inform
- 8 Principles of Open Data
- Tom Steinberg's Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government)
- Sunlight's Federal CTO Wishlist (John Wonderlich)
- Sunlight Foundation post: Yes we can use comments, web services on Government web sites (Greg Elin)
- Right to Know Recommendations - Long document, includes more general policy issues beyond technology
Discussion
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Thanks for the resources. The link to the "Barriers and Solutions" is a little wonky at the moment though. :-)
James: Thanks for noticing the broken link. Now fixed.