Bill's Notebook

“POIA requires Executive Branch agencies to publish all publicly available information on the Internet in a timely fashion and in user-friendly formats. It also creates an advisory committee to help develop government-wide Internet publication policies.“

The Public Strategist argues that government working with tech companies is like an elephant partnering with a mouse.

This is the workshop I attended on February 17th.  Amazing amount of great material in such a short time.  The final document (available in Word):

http://opengovdirective.pbworks.com/f/Final+Results+of+the+February+Open+Government+Directive+Workshop.doc

This is from the O’Reilly who is the technology publisher.  In the last year or so, he has written extensively on the use of Web 2.0 for opening up government and improving the connection between government and the citizens it serves.  In January 2010, he plans to publish Open Government which will be a collection of essays, interviews, and case studies.  Should be a must read when it is published.