A couple of months ago, as part of our Redesigning the Government series, we took a stab at redesigning and rethinking the FCC website, which resulted in some good discussion between our organizations. Yesterday the FCC released their long awaited Reboot site, which by their definition is an attempt to be “your portal to take part in improving citizen interactions with the Federal Communications Commission”. The questions we've been asking ourselves while evaluating their new site are: what exactly does the above statement mean, what have they done well, and what are the things we think they still need to consider while moving forward.
Continue readingQuestion for the Day
From my e-mail box: Can a corporation now be elected President? Ok, so that’s some snark. I’ll have some more... View Article
Continue readingSecretary Clinton’s Apps for the World
From a speech she gave yesterday on Internet freedom (transcript) (video): Let’s say I want to create a mobile phone... View Article
Continue readingWe’re tracking the open government directive
Citizens United and Transparency: A Look Ahead
The Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited decision in the election law case Citizens United [PDF], to which Ellen has... View Article
Continue readingJustice Thomas Says No to Disclosure, Blames Internet
Noted without response. From Justice Thomas’ dissent wherein he states that the court should eliminate all campaign finance disclosure requirements:... View Article
Continue readingHow the Citizens United Case Affects Money & Politics and Transparency As We Know it
The ramifications of today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC are breathtaking – opening the floodgates of political... View Article
Continue readingCitability Codeathon
Silona Bonewald from citability.org is holding a hackathon here in Washington, DC. You should consider attending. Citability is seeking to make it easy for government to publish documents online in a citable way.
Continue readingImagining /open
Last month President Obama unveiled his Open Government Directive to create further openness within the executive branch. This directive requires federal agencies to show how they are working toward transparency, public participation, and collaboration by requiring the addition of new web pages – "/open" pages – onto their existing sites. With the first deadline in the directive quickly approaching, we've put together our thoughts on what these pages should look like.
Continue readingCitizens United Positive for Online Disclosure?
My colleague Daniel just shared this excerpt on page 55 of the Citizens United decision. While our team is still... View Article
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