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Princeton Paper on Government Transparency

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

I haven’t had time to read it yet, but Princeton’s IT Policy Center has a new paper out about open file formats and government transparency that’s worth checking out:
If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-e ... Continue reading »

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  • dmarti

    1 year ago

    The private sector has the same problem. It's easier to demo a "company portal" to your Vice President of Marketing than it is to show up a code repository or an RSS feed.
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  • MikeT

    1 year ago

    Don,

    You're comparing two separate things. The portal is what the VP gets to interact with, the RSS is the data stream for the content. It's like trying to show off gas to a car buyer and get them impressed with your product. To the VP, the novelty of the RSS is when you tell them in passing that in that format the content can be used by a myriad number of company assets and customers without modification---more bang for the corporate buck.
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  • Jerry Brito

    1 year ago

    FYI - OpenRegulations.org is a site I threw up a while back that serves as an alternative interface to the government's Regulations.gov. Unfortunately, it broke a few months ago and I hadn't been able to fix it. The site was cited in the Princeton paper and it gave me motivation to finally figure out what was wrong and fix it. So, it's fixed. Check it out. The major improvement it offers over the official site is that it offers per-agency RSS feeds rather than the one firehose feed the government offers.
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