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Change // Reform // Collaboration
Many important government transparency programs may be cut by Congress.
To help the Sunlight Foundation prevent this, sign the petition at www.sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata
Stephen Goldsmith, New York City's deputy mayor for operations and author of The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good, talks on WYNC's Brian Lehrer Show about the city's recent request for cost-cutting suggestions.
The interview discusses some interesting ideas and innovations from the public on how to save the city money, without impacting on service provision. He responds to callers suggestions on improving efficiencies within the city.
(via WYNC.org)
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:
All of these topics are elaborated upon in the superb ebook of the conversation.
