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“Digital Transparency in Government: What We Have and What We Need”

SUNSHINE WEEK SYMPOSIUM. “Digital Transparency in Government: What We Have and What We Need”. Beth Cate Associate Professor School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. WHAT WE HAVE. FOIA.gov FOIAonline Open Government Initiative/Open Government Partnership

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“Digital Transparency in Government: What We Have and What We Need”

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  1. SUNSHINE WEEK SYMPOSIUM “Digital Transparency in Government: What We Have and What We Need” Beth Cate Associate Professor School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

  2. WHAT WE HAVE • FOIA.gov • FOIAonline • Open Government Initiative/Open Government Partnership • FOIA Modernization Advisory Committee • Presidential/NARA Directives on electronic mgmt of records, including email by 2016 • Data.gov • State and city portals leading the way • Civic hacking and growth in publicly developed APIs, data standards

  3. WHAT WE NEED • Embedded ethos of openness • Appreciation of the difference between open data for efficiency or stimulus, and openness for accountability • Common FOIA portal and core regulation • Tools for effective data use • Access (including net neutrality), data literacy

  4. Service enhancement v. Accountability “Predictably, agencies responding to [the OGI] mandate have tended to release data that helps them serve their existing goals without throwing open the doors for uncomfortable increases in public scrutiny.” • Yu and Robinson, “The New Ambiguity of ‘Open Government,’” 59 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 178, 198 (2012)

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