Data.gov: Hacker Culture Takes Over Government?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/04/Beth_Noveck_Transparent_Government

The Open Government Initiative's Beth Noveck discusses Data.gov, the Obama administration's attempt to make government more transparent. While conspiracy theorists dominated the initiative's early days, Noveck says the online community eventually stepped up and "removed away the weeds" through self-regulation.

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President Obama's first executive action was the Open Government Memorandum calling for more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government. It is likely that one of the longest lasting effects of the current administration will be how much it changed the culture of Washington by opening government data and pioneering innovations in policymaking.

As the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and leader of the President's Open Government Initiative in the White House, Beth Noveck is in the forefront of the Federal government's implementation of these changes. On leave as law professor at New York Law School and a visiting professor of communication at Stanford University, she lectures on intellectual property, innovation and technology law. She is also the Founder of the State of Play conferences.

Noveck just released her latest book Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. - Long Now Foundation

Beth Simone Noveck is the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government. She directs the White House Open Government Initiative.

She is on leave as a professor law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communication at Stanford University.

Dr. Noveck taught in the areas of intellectual property, technology and first amendment law and founded the law school's "Do Tank," a legal and software research and development lab focused on developing technologies and policies to promote open government (dotank.nyls.edu).

Dr. Noveck is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006).

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[glennd7962]

I want to bitch-slap this woman. Guess what, we have a right to any and all of the information we want from out government, regardless of whether she thinks it's relevant or not. In addition, her discussion about developing our civic culture reveals her complete lack of understanding of our history. Centralized, authoritarians govt destroys civic culture by suppressing individual agency- I wonder if she's ever read De Tocqueville? Fire her now! She lives off our money.

[DackIsBack]

The Kennedy Assassination conspiracy theory isn't half as far fetched as most mainstream conspiracy theory's.

I wouldn't put it past the GOP, They certainly have the resources, There is the possibility that LHO was a manchurian candidate.

`Blah Blah, I don't believe the "official story", Not for a second.

[woodwilliam601]

tsk tsk

[trancepx]

This is why we can't have nice things. Empty rhetoric... propaganda bullshit.

[truvelocity]

OK, scout UFO's is more plausible, because biological life couldn't possibly manage a millions of years.

We are doing it with satellites right now with our technology, so who's to say a more advance civilization couldn't do ti better?

However, really... The incredible distance that the human mind can't comprehend along with time... We are not that special on the 3rd outer arm of one of billions of galaxies light years from the nearest star.

[namename654]

@truvelocity Great assertion, but you've proved my point. Billions and billions of galaxies. Out of those, if there's one civilization per galaxy, then that's billions and billions of civilizations that could father scout UFO's. If one of these alien civilizations is invading the earth's airspace, then the American people should be abreast of which one. Especially if they are hostile to the privacy and freedom of the American people! Unless your keeping company with the aliens, why not?

[truvelocity]

@namename654 We are not the center of the universe. Do you even have any idea the enormity of our galaxy, let alone, the universe? For any civilization to get here at all, is next to impossible, and if they did discover we existed, they wouldn't even bother to pick our world when there's billions and billions of galaxies to choose from. We are not that special! I'm not even going to get into the Soviets, when my family member had business there after the fall of communism.

[namename654]

@truvelocity And look, who knows how sensitive UFO's can be to intergalatic tribal warfare. Obviously the scope of the argument is something that won't be debated in public because it could risks our own galaxy. But seriously, if Americans have UFO's at our back door, with soviet mind control to boot, and we don't know about it, then you've lost my vote.

[namename654]

@truvelocity the alleged weeding out is obviously another cover up. The demands of these people are ignored because the alien soviet mind control victims are programmed to announce that they are crackpots. Just because they aren't in the uranic quartermaster's pipeline of thought doesn't make them crackpots!

[teleomorph]

ew, what an uppity btch.

[truvelocity]

@namename654 She was making an analogy about how there's a movement of people demanding nonsense. She was not serious about the label on her door. Its a joke. Its sarcasm. She was being facetious. I guess it went over your head, because her point was allowing people to police themselves in weeding out the cooks and nuts and allowing legit questions come through their web site.

[namename654]

It is not whether I will or will not know. It's what incentives I have to know. More importantly, all Americans have a right to know or not know. And they are fed up with the government telling them what they need to know or not know! Why else are the UFO's peoples number one priority?