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The Open Government Initiative is an effort by the administration of President of the United States Barack Obama to "[create] an unprecedented level of openness in Government." [ 1 ] The directive starting this initiative was issued on January 20, 2009, Obama's first day in office.
Open Government Pioneers UK is an example of a civil society led initiative using open source approaches to support citizens and civil society organisations use open government as a way to secure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. It uses an Open Wiki to plan the development of an open government civil society movement across ...
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative aimed at securing commitments from national and sub-national governments to promote open government, combat corruption, and improve governance. [1] The OGP is managed by a steering committee that includes representatives from both governments and civil society organizations.
In May 2009, the website Data.gov was launched as part of the open government initiative. [5] Obama's focus on open government led to an increased interest in civic technology. [23] A similar legislative reform initiative, known as the Read the Bill, was advocated by the Sunlight Foundation for implementing a 72-hour hold on new bills, allowing ...
Many governments publish open data they produce or commission on official websites to be freely used, reused, or redistributed by anyone. [1] [2] These sites are often created as part of open government initiatives. Some open data sites like CKAN and DKAN are open source data portal solutions where as others like Socrata are proprietary data ...
By Anna Tong and Michael Martina (Reuters) -A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart or ...
The open-politics theory, a narrow application of open-source governance, combines aspects of the free software and open-content movements, promoting decision-making methods claimed to be more open, less antagonistic, and more capable of determining what is in the public interest with respect to public policy issues. It takes special care for ...
[non-primary source needed] HunchBuzz is another example which has been implemented by New Zealand's central government and is being rolled out to local city councils. [ non-primary source needed ] CitizenLab is a more European-oriented ideation platform on which the citizens co-create their city through ideation and citizen-sourcing challenges.