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White House Goes Transparent, Plans Blog Launch Next Week

May 29, 2009 by Thord Daniel Hedengren

When now President Obama campaigned, he got a lot of cred for being open about using new technologies, and you can definitely say that he spun the social sphere well enough. This continues to come to fruit with the launch of a Transparency Blog next week according to InformationWeek, who also quotes deputy CTO of the open government initiative at the Office of Science and Technology Beth Noveck.

“If we have the platforms, if we have the technology, marry it to a process that allows people to contribute their ideas or expertise, and marry that to laws that say it is OK, the hope is we can actually lead to and create a more open government,” she said.

That sounds good, and this does too, speaking about the Data.gov initiative:

“We don’t have to put everything on our Web sites, but we have to make sure that data is available on our Web sites so people can turn it into something that’s meaningful and useful to them,” Noveck said. For example, she pointed to the endless possibilities of new types of data visualizations.

It is good to see that the transparency urges of the new media sphere is affecting the governments as well.

Author: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Barack Obama, Beth Noveck, Data.gov, USA, Whitehouse.gov

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Comments

  1. Bryant Evans says

    May 29, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Mearly having a blog called “Transparent” means nothing. Only when we consistently see content will we know if this is any different from any other governmental politicalspeak.

    I wait to be convinced.

  2. Thord Daniel Hedengren says

    May 29, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    True words.

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