Open government encourages engagement, improves government, and strengthens the economy. It encourages engagement by allowing citizens to access information about their representatives and participate more in the political process. It improves government by making it more transparent and functioning as a platform. It strengthens the economy by making more public data available as platforms that can stimulate innovation and be repurposed by others. For data and government to be truly open, information needs to be accessible, in open formats, and able to be legally repurposed.

1. Open Government

2. david eaves citizen blogger fellow

3. my point

4. NOBODY TRUSTS YOU

5. try not to take it personally (they don’t trust anyone… not even their doctors)

6. objectivity = credibility

7. objectivity = credibility

8. “ we want to see the discussion” -David Weinberger

9. v s

10. v s v s

11. objectivity ≠ credibility

12. transparency = credibility

13. v s v s ?

14. my point open and transparency 1. Encourages engagement 2. Improves government 3. Strengthens the economy

15. <1> encourages engagement

17. i-Politics Tell me about this riding… Where is the nearest polling station? Most recent election results

18. i-Politics Constituency Offices 979 Victoria Street Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 2C1 Telephone: (250) 851-4991 Fax: (250) 851-4994 Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Cathy McLeod Conservative

19. i-Politics Constituency Offices 979 Victoria Street Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 2C1 Telephone: (250) 851-4991 Fax: (250) 851-4994 Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Cathy McLeod Conservative

20. <2> im proves government

21. When governments are open and transparent government becomes a platform

25. The biggest benefactor of a transparent government is… government

26. <3> strengthens the economy

27. “ When attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product becomes modular and commoditized, the opportunity to earn attractive profits with proprietary products will usually emerge at an adjacent stage.” - Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Feb 2004

28. to stimulate our economy and our political process we need to modularize data

31. Healthier citizens Safer workplaces Lower healthcare costs Happier customers

33. Map as platform

34. Data as platform

35. public data is not public (or modularized) until…

36. Three principles of transparent government: 1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist 2. If it isn’t in open and machine readable formats, it can’t engage 3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower

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