Posts Tagged ‘open’

Open government plans updated, criticized
Agencies are revising their open government plans to respond to audits and feedback they’ve gotten since the first plans came out in April.

Voters OK open primaries, deny public $ for races
Blaming political parties for California’s dysfunction, voters have replaced their partisan primary, but there’s no guarantee it will change government. California – Political party – Politics – Open primary – United States

Missouri auditor documents open government issues
Missouri auditors have found dozens of open meeting and record problems in local and state government agencies. The state auditor’s office released a summary Wednesday of Missouri Sunshine Law compliance problems found in 59 audits conducted in 2008 and 2009.

Mohammed Instructs Government Entities to Open Door Further
DUBAI – Government departments have been directed to open their doors to qualified UAE graduates and help hone their skills.

Better Portland government through open source apps?
PORTLAND, Ore. — Civic problem got you frustrated? Mayor Sam Adams hopes you’ll build an app for that. Adams announced the launch of CivicApps , an open source design contest to “showcase regional open data and promote collaboration between citizens and government to create applications … that address civic issues” to benefit the community at large. CivicApps was announced just before …

Cass Sunstein on the limits of open government
Cass Sunstein, the Obama administration’s “regulatory czar,” gave a speech at the Brookings Institution this afternoon. Regular readers are probably familiar with most of its content — the open government directive, OMB’s dashboards for transparency and IT projects. But Sunstein made a couple of interesting points on the limits of open government initiatives. Sunstein acknowledged that [...]