In
the open government movement, there are few «makers» of the caliber of Josh Tauberer.
From information architecture to the composition and order in which elements load on the pages, Sara is an unsung hero of
the open government movement, and a model for how Legal Information Institutes around the world can have a global impact with a small team of smart and dedicated people.
Today and tomorrow, Toronto Innovation Showcase is bringing together City of Toronto staff, City leaders, and various groups of citizens to discuss
the Open Government movement and what it should mean to the City.
Not exact matches
They go far beyond eliminating tariffs to facilitating people
movements and investment, reducing the impact of non-tariff barriers, and
opening up
government contract markets.
The resolution — a partnership with the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Whistler Chamber, Prince George Chamber, Calgary Chamber, and BC Chamber of Commerce — offers suggestions on how the federal
government can help
open up air access to more airlines, which would increase tourism and improve the
movement of people and goods across Canada.
Recent scandals involving the
movement of individuals between
government and the private sector — such as the cases of Geoff Hoon and Andy Coulson — have highlighted the corruption vulnerabilities left
open by the current system.
I was on a job interview recently and was asked to define «
open government,» the
movement to make
government transparent and accountable to citizens.
Events like these complement the main conference,
open up politics and help develop a strong campaigning
movement to elect a Labour
government for the many not the few.»
The Ed Next article by Michael McShane, «
Open Educational Resources,» looks at the OER
movement and at the role played by the federal
government in relation to it.
Officially
opened for business Jan. 27, the organization grows out of the
movement, in
government and academic circles,...
She encourages public institutions to join the
Open Data
movement, and she talked about her new concept of Access by Design — which now accompanies her Privacy by Design thinking — and had a number of panelists speaking to the concept of making
government information accessible.
RECOP is a project of the Law.gov legal
open government data
movement.
In the wake of the revelations that Trump campaign consultants Cambridge Analytica used data from 50 million Facebook users to target digital political advertising during the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has lost billions in stock market value,
governments on both sides of the Atlantic have
opened investigations, and a nascent social
movement is calling on users to #DeleteFacebook.
While
governments in the US (particularly the SEC), China and Russia have all taken strict or uncertain regulatory positions toward digital currencies, Switzerland has welcomed the
movement with
open arms.