Reasons for not releasing data in government
We’re in the first workshop of the day at the CEBIT Gov 2.0 conference. It is led by Andrew Stott, the Director for Digital Engagement for the UK government. The first exercise of the day has been to...
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Technology for Transparency: Five New Cases, With More to Come!
The Technology for Transparency Network is thrilled to announce the start of the publication of our second phase of research. Beginning with five cases — Accountability Initiative in India, Amatora mu...
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Big Brother’s Big Brother
Wikileaks has pushed the definition and question of transparency to its limit and beyond, releasing hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through media...
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Frank Furedi on the cult of leaking
For some time now, Western public life has been suffering from a curious psycho-cultural affliction. The main symptoms are a loss of confidence in our ability to know and give meaning to various human...
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Keeping ISPs transparent and honest
In his review of Tim Wu’s The Master Switch, Evgeny Morozov writes: Net neutrality is a simple idea with powerful implications. A neutral net would, for example, prevent cable providers from slowing...
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Influence Networks: The six degrees of investigative journalism
In October, 2010, during the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona, several investigative journalists explained how they managed to uncover corruption using network analysis. One of them, Dejan...
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Open data: A new international norm?
The open data movement has begun. The premise of open data was first evoked by Michael Cross’ campaigning in 2006. The United States took the first steps with the arrival of Barack Obama in the White...
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Tunisia 2.0, on its way to the ballot boxes
An old building in the heart of Tunis, near the “Passage” neighborhood. Here, on the fourth floor, is where a group of Tunisian citizens live and play their part in the Tunisian democratic adventure....
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The State of Open Data
What is the state of the open data movement? Yesterday, during my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk from last year’s...
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Protest Infatuation and the 4th Wave of Democratization (1)
Along with David Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Jad Abumrad, Kurt Anderson belongs to my select fraternity of idealized, intellectual American man-crush. So I was kinda, well, crushed when I read his...
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