From FlaglerLive.com:
How well does your state legislature give its citizens access to its information? This Sunshine Week, as we reflect on the public’s right to know and the importance of open government, this should be a central question.
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From Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy:
This week is Sunshine Week, an annual effort sponsored by journalism advocacy and civil society organizations to promote values of open government, freedom of information, and public participation. A rich variety of events are scheduled around the country, most of which are free and many of which will be webcast.
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Read More… from NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for March 8, 2013
A recent post and a not-so-recent paper that, among other things, sets out to distinguish between "open data" and "open government" in terms of actual meaning, usage, and potentialities.
From Nextgov:
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From Sunlight Foundation:
After a long wait, the White House is today launching Ethics.gov (at Explore.data.gov/ethics ), fulfilling the President's campaign promise to create a single website for searches related to executive branch ethics and influence data.
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A few open government and FOIA news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier:
Open Data Handbook 1.0 introduces open data
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