An Open Government conversation

On September 29, the FASTforward blog hosted a conversation between Beth Simone Noveck, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government and Andrew Rasiej, the co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum.

The conversation focused on how new collaborative technologies were driving a critical cultural in the U.S. from closed to open government.

You can listen to a recording of the webinar below, or view an ebook of the conversation at the FASTforward blog.

Topics discussed included:

  • The Vision of Open Government
  • The Big Shift: Moving from Collaborative Elections to Collaborative Governance
  • The changes in behaviour necessary for collaboration to flourish
  • Best practices in the areas of collaboration and transparency
  • The future for the Open Government initiative

All of these topics are elaborated upon in the superb ebook of the conversation.

 

 

Posted on Saturday, Oct 10, 2009