Independent Government Observers Task Force - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Jul 08
  

  Louise Yarnall

  interesting effort to track efforts to "report" data on local government

  data civic government

• 19 Jun 08
  

  Todd Suomela

  The Internet has created a new generation of individuals and institutes that practice the time-honored tradition of observing and reporting on the activities of government.

  government observer oversight open-government

  • We call this meeting on August 4-5 a "non-conference." Unlike a conference, please do not count on sitting in an audience and listening to speakers read slides. The two rooms will be allocated to  a series of working groups per the draft agenda below.
  • • Case Law (Working Group Chair: Carl Malamud, carl at media dot org). This working group brings together  individuals groups involved in the day-to-day work of putting the courts on-line. Topics that will be considered include markup of citations in cases, "universal resolvers" for mapping citations to URLs, recycling of PACER and other documents, and other  subjects as appropriate.
     
    • Municipal Governments (Working Group Chair: Daniel X. O'Neil, danx at everyblock dot com).  This group will focus on issues involved in citizens attempting to build interfaces around municipal government data. Technical issues such as harvesting techniques and presentation techniques will be covered, as will social issues such as negotiating for the release of  public data. 
     
    • Government and Copyright Issues (Working Group Chair: Fred Von Lohmann, fred at eff dot org). This working group will focus on assertion of copyright by government groups. 

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