When Sunlight Disinfects

12 September 2010

One of the most highly publicized Open Government initiatives of the last few years got a thundering wakeup call last week, when Ellen Miller – Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation – addressed succinctly, and with hard facts, the Open Data ‘Elephant in the room’. That is, the problem of missing or wrong data, contained [...]

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How Political Transparency Effects Aid Distribution

11 September 2010

Jorg Faust has just released a new paper on political transparency and how this can impact how aid is allocated. The idea is that ‘foreign aid is more effective for development if it’s allocated to relatively poor recipient countries’ with relatively sound political institutions’. However, this is not always the case. Instead, aid allocation has [...]

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Promoting Innovation through Prize and Challenge Programs

2 September 2010

Promoting innovation through prizes and challenges has steadily become an accepted policy throughout many US government departments and agencies over the past few years. Consequently, research into what does and does not work, in the development of such initiatives is increasing important in advancing best practice in this area. Earlier this year, the Case Foundation [...]

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Irish Government’s New Online News Service – A review

18 July 2010

This week’s launch of a new news information portal MerrionStreet.ie represents a new approach by the Irish Government to communicate with citizens. The site – named after the Dublin street on which Government Buildings is located – is based on the WordPress Open Source software platform, and was built for the Government by Arekibo for [...]

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Govt Spending Cuts – Who knows best?

11 July 2010

The recently announced UK Government Spending Challenge, has this week, invited members of the public to send in their ideas on how to get value for public money. The UK Spending Challenge was announced last month, but was initially only open to public servants. As Chancellor George Osbourne explained above, the response from public servants [...]

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UK Govt Crowdsources ideas to fight ‘pointless regulation’

1 July 2010

A new government website called Your Freedom was launched today, offering members of the public the opportunity to voice their ideas and comments to reduce pointless regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg explained how this provides a real chance for the public to influence government policy: It’s a totally new way [...]

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