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 :『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 :『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 :『This book demonstrates how your organization can improve service, reduce operating costs, improve workforce morale, and rebuild public confidence by using Web 2.0 technology to make information more transparent and readily available. Written in everyday language for non-technical people, Democratizing Data provides simple, low-cost strategies for using real-time structured data feeds and data visualization to help bring data transparency to your company or institution. 』

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. 』