引述 :『"The whole pondering process — Should we do it? Should we not do it? — has been truncated because the White House is doing it," says Theresa Nasif, director of the Federal Citizen Information Center, which helps coordinate Web outreach. "It's very exciting to be in government."』

引述 :『The data we're including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers' salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we've used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division. They did the hard work! We just made the data a bit easier to find and use.』

引述 :『ProPublica frees ethics information for the Internet age』

引述 :『first, a lot of times it's not even released. I mean people aren't putting it out there in any kind of way where we can access it. But even when it is, for example, like a mandate by an agency to report on food prices or a certain statistic, sometimes it's baked into PDFs. And it's put out in a way that you can't really do much with it, you know, interact with it, parse it out, discover what's there. So that said, that's starting to change. I mean there's been some folks that are saying, "Wait a minute. We've already collected this data, and if we spend a little extra time packaging it, we can put it out there. And it will essentially have a whole new lifecycle and start adding value back to the community--the tax payers that paid for it."』

引述 :『Web 2.0, meet dot-gov. Dot-gov, this is Web 2.0. Or at least that's the plan, now that the General Services Administration inked landmark agreements with several new media companies that clear up legal issues surrounding liability and government sunshine rules — thus easing their use by government agencies' websites. This announcement marks a big step for agencies that are trying to become more transparent and connect with citizens, but find themselves saddled with antiquated websites. Now that the bureaucratic brush has been cleared, government agencies will be free, for example, to embed videos and create photo widgets that citizens can embed into their MySpace or Facebook pages.』

引述 :『HackingCongress is a new hub for projects at the intersection of civics & technology, fostering civic engagement and education, advancing government transparency, and supporting communication with government. ("Hacking" has a dual meaning in the computer world and in this case it is positive slang for creative programming.) The focus of this site is on projects related to the U.S. Congress and state-level legislatures.』

引述 :『The Sunlight Labs API provides methods for obtaining basic information on Members of Congress, legislator IDs used by various websites, and lookups between places and the politicians that represent them. The primary purpose of the API is to facilitate mashups involving politicians and the various other APIs that are out there.』

引述 :『I interviewed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., via Twitter, the micro-blogging website. I received a lot of questions for the senator from the Twitter community -- thanks for those.』

引述 :『For the past two months, I’ve been developing RepresentedBy, a Facebook application created for the Sunlight Labs Apps For America competition. During the two months of development, I’ve immersed myself in the online government world and while I’ve been exposed to quite a lot of great work by passionate individuals, I’ve also realized how little of Congress is digitally transparent. Digitally transparent can mean a lot of things to different people, so in an attempt to quantify that, I’ve developed what I’m calling the DTI, or Digital Transparency Index. This is a number between 0 and 115 that gives you a rough idea of how engaged a legislator is in the digital world. Legislators are scored on the following criteria:』

引述 :『Gov 2.0 Summit will bring together policy-makers, elected officials, upper management in city, state, and federal agencies, technology leadership in all levels of government, private-sector internet business leaders, contractors, and consultants to establish high-level thought leadership across the spectrum of stake-holders. The event will frame the important questions before us with the participation of government, industry, non-profits, and academia: * How can we use technology to make government more transparent and accountable? * How do we bridge the culture of web innovation, forged around the world and in Silicon Valley, with the culture of political innovation? * How can we reinvent the contracting ecosystem, enabling a new model of public-private partnerships for the benefit of both sides?』

引述 :『Use open formats such as ATOM, XML, RSS, and RDF that provide the greatest flexibility for visitors and web–based services and which are generally preferred over proprietary formats requiring specific software to interpret the data. This helps to reduce the dependency on a single software vendor allowing the data to be usable in the future. 』

引述 :『Barack Obama rode into office with a high-tech, open source campaign that digitized the book on campaigning. Now, with his selection of a celebrated open data advocate as his Chief Information Officer, Obama appears serious about bringing those same principles to the executive branch's treasure trove of data. 』

引述 :『Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration's Effort to Foster Instant Communication』

引述 :『10年後的台灣願景？2020年的性與家庭又是什麼模樣？行政院研考會提出設置網站的點子，邀請黎明柔、王文華等人與網友交流創意，型塑未來的台灣，這個麻辣網站預計年後開站。 研考會主委江宜樺說，這是中長程、超越黨派及世代的大題目，希望年輕人能夠參與提供意見，因為2020年他們正是各行各業的領導菁英。 研考會認為，這項議題最好是透過民間參與而不是政府提案，因此將在過年後以WEB2.0的概念架設一個網站，其中約有10個頻道，建立全民參與的平台。 江宜樺說，在WEB1.0時代，是民眾把意見上網，政府再印出來交辦，但是，在WEB2.0則是高度互動，別人可以評論你的觀點，願景2020的精神就是擴大民眾對公共事務的參與，因此將邀請民間社會很有想法、創意想法的朋友，由他們主持網站，分別提出對2020年台灣的教育、生活型態、醫療健康的期待。 研考會規劃，將邀請約10個熱心，對台灣未來充滿期待的網路頻道主持人，目前包括作家王文華將主持「如何鼓勵社會創新」頻道、周奕成主持「台灣人要怎麼和大陸人相處」頻道、以及有廣播話題女王的黎明柔主持「2020年的性與家庭」頻道，網友可以提供各式麻辣看法。 江宜樺表示，在網站開站後的半年內，各頻道主持人會彙整意見，研考會再依此報告想辦法轉為政策，提供行政院參考。』

引述 :『這十分有意義：一則作為美國總統府網站，如此動作對於美國政府其他部門、乃至於全球政府網站無疑有指標性意涵存在；二則創用 CC 是不可撤回的，也代表自此之後，白宮網頁勢必長期使用創用 CC 授權。』