The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) will be promoting the creation of public data catalogs by state governments.
NASCIO will work with the nation’s first CIO, Vivek Kundra, to model the same open data approach Obama initiated with data.gov.
NASCIO President and Minnesota State CIO Gopal Khanna said “this is a major step… »

“The Freedom of Information Act should not be necessary because data should already be readily available to all citizens,” author Jeff Jarvis said to participants of the Personal Democracy Forum conference currently underway in New York City.
“We need for transparency to be the default government,” Jarvis said. “We need a government that is searchable, clickable… »

The Sunlight Foundation announced the winners in its “Apps for America” contest.
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When citizens feel that their jobs, their reputations, or the safety of themselves and their loved ones, might be threatened by a public revelation of something they said to an elected official with the expectation of reasonable privacy, what is the responsibility of the government to protect them from harm, or to protect their communications… »

These are eight principles to follow in releasing government data, recommended by the public to inform President Obama’s Open Government Initiative.
The Open Government Brainstorm event was the first of three phases of public comment hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration to elicit suggestions for more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government.
An abridged list of… »