| Presenters/Leaders |
Format |
Topic |
Saturday
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Sunday |
Resources
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Time
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| Peter Corbett, Greg? |
Quick Presentation (10 mins) then Discussion |
Cradle to Grave IT innovation using crowdsourcing (citizen talent + open data) |
X |
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Apps for Democracy and
Apps for America
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TBD |
| David James |
Quick introduction, discussion, roll-up your sleeves and write some code if you want |
Open source voting API (a Web service), built in Ruby. |
X |
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voting project on GitHub wiki
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TBD |
| Bob Biersack, Wei Lou |
Quick presentation (15-20 mins) then discussion |
Working with FEC data. Where we are, where we're going, problems and opportunities |
X |
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existing FTP summary |
TBD |
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John Scott, JC Herz
jms3rd@gmail.com
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Presentation, Discussion, Panel w/ attendees |
Technology Transparency, what amount of tech trans do we want in our Gov systems, Examples of, Open Source Software, Standards, Development ~ 45 min |
X |
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DoD Open Tech Dev
Write as We Fight
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| Silona Bonewald |
Quick Presentation w discussion with live wiki work! |
What should the underlying information architecture look like for legislation |
X |
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whitehouse.wikia.com
budgetwiki.com
leagueoftechvoters.org
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TBD |
| Jerry Brito |
Quick presentation then discussion |
The regulatory process is not transparent. Regulations.gov leave a lot to be desired. Using the newly released GPO FDSYS, one could build a more transparent and participatory interface to fed regs. |
X |
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regulations.gov
openregulations.org
fdsys.gpo.gov
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Ed Pastore
Mark Frischmuth
Wayne Moses Burke
Jim Gilliam
Lucas Cioffi
David Colarusso
Lily Liu
(others welcome)
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Roundtable discussion |
Crowdsourcing governance decisions - discussion among attendees involved in political/governmental crowdsourcing initiatives |
X |
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Metagovernment
DemocracyLab
Open Forum Foundation
White House 2
DeepDebate.Org
communityCOUNTS
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TBD
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Ed Pastore (@epastore)
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Quick presentation then discussion |
Beyond transparency: Crowdsourcing governance without any individual authorities. (Yes, this is a little ahead of its time.) |
X |
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metagovernment.org
similar projects
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TBD
(possibly merge into above session)
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| David Colarusso |
Quick presentation/ announcement then brainstorming session |
Improving the Dialog, Post YouTube Debates and 10Questions. Help shape the communityCOUNTS platform. |
X |
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communityCOUNTS |
TBD |
| Josh Tauberer |
Discussion |
Open Gov't Data: What should be the expectations? What's the real value? Share your lessons learned. |
X |
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"8 Principles" |
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| Josh Tauberer |
Demonstration, discussion |
Civic Hacking & Semantic Web Technology: Connecting the dots across data sets. |
|
X |
rdfabout.com
Query Census Data with RDF (very old!)
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| W. David Stephenson |
Demonstration, discussion |
How structured data & automated delivery can improve government workers' efficiency, promote transparency & encourage crowdsourcing |
|
X |
forthcoming "Democratizing Data" book, AppsforDemocracy
Dutch Taxonomy Project
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| Micah Sifry |
Presentation, discussion |
Transparency: What have you done for me lately? Demonstrating the impact of our work (criticism/self-criticism) |
X |
X |
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Either day, but towards the latter half of things |
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Tracy Viselli
Silona Bonewald
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Discussion |
Encouraging Absolute Positive Crowdsourcing Results: Moving Past Marijuana Policy and Net Positive Results |
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Clay Shirky's recent LSE Appearance |
TBD |
| George Thomas |
Presentation, discussion |
Feeds, Seeds and Graphs: Government Transparency Solution Architecture works in progress
Atom, XHTML+RDFa, and FFATA LOD sources - what I'm working on with OMB and GSA sponsors of recovery.gov release 2 and 3
|
X |
X |
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TBD - doesn't matter to me which day, either is fine, depends on what others want |
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Steven Clift
clift@publicus.net
|
Virtual Discussion |
Building local e-democracy from government transparency to online civic engagement - This will be a one hour session using an online conferencing tool/ReadyTalk (tool suggestions welcome: clift@publicus.net ) |
X
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Issues Forums background
Issues Forums one hour webinar
E-Democracy blog
Articles by Steven Clift
|
Likely in the early afternoon for one hour |
| Tracy Viselli |
Dicussion/Strategizing |
Using Diigo to annotate government transparency efforts and resource material and create a new level of conversation online (literally) |
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Diigo: A New Communication Channel for Government Transparency and Policy |
TBD ( can be either day depending on time. |
| Sunlight Labs (Josh Ruihley) |
Brief Intro, Group Discussion, Hack Session |
Free an attainable government data source through databasing and API creation. |
X |
X |
|
TBD (may be multiple sessions) |
| CDT/Open CRS (Josh Ruihley) |
Brief Intro, Hack Session |
Congressional Research Service intentionally obfuscates information on their reports to prevent libraries from archiving. Hack session to crack obfuscation and free CRS reports. |
X |
X |
Open CRS, Obfuscated PDFs |
TBD (may be multiple sessions) |
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Valdis Krebs
Erin Kenneally
|
Presentation & Discussion |
Social Network Analysis --
Mapping Hidden Networks with Public Data
|
X |
X |
corruption , indirect quid-pro-quo ,
financial crimes
|
TBD |
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Jay Dedman
Matthew Craig
|
Demonstration & Discussion |
Why open media formats are necessary for true democracy and data preservation. |
|
X |
OVA , Xiph Foundation, Ogg/Theora codec, Enabling Ogg in Firefox |
TBD |
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Andrew Turner
Dave Troy?
|
Presentation & Discussion |
The *Report projects: Participatory Democracy and awareness through aggregation and mobile interfaces on an open-source platform. |
X |
X |
TwitterVoteReport.com
InaugurationReport.com
InaugurationReport Code on github
|
TBD |
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Pete ODell www.swanisland.net
pete.odell@swanisland.net
|
Presentation and Discussion plus optional demonstration |
Interoperable data - key to cross agency and cross organizational transparency - CAP, XBRL, and more |
x |
x |
Transparency_Camp_Interoperable_data_presentation_feb2009.pptx
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| Mike Diliberto MindTouch |
Presentation and Discussion |
Set Your Data Free - Using MindTouch to Visualize and Analyze Government Data |
X |
X |
MindTouch Deki
WhoRunsGov.com
Sunlight Labs API
|
We will be attending both days, so either day is fine |
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Pete ODell
pete.odell@swanisland.net
|
Presentation and discussion |
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) - breaking the sensitive but unclassified information logjam through a government wide framework |
x |
x |
www.fas.org/sgp/bush/cui.html |
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John Scott
jms3d@gmail.com
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Presentation |
GovAcquisitions & Intellectual Property
- the gov buys info systems badly, this needs to be fixed, here's how. Also taxpayer IP needs to be be made widely available
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x |
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Patrick Dwyer
patrick@programmish.com
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Presentation and Discussion |
Data Transparency: Attracting New Ideas with Easy Information |
x |
x |
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Matthew Fretz - rmfretz@rmfretz.com
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Discussion |
Code? Hacking? I just want to write:
Discussion centered on resources: what works, what doesn't, and what we'd like to see.
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TBD - I'll be there both days. |
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Wayne Moses Burke
|
Discussion |
Communicating with Congress
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What should be done? Who's working it?
Pros and cons of transparency vs privacy of the communications? |
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Open Forum Foundation |
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Bill Allison, ballison@sunlightfoundation.com
Nancy Watzman, nwatzman@sunlightfoundation.com
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quick introduction then discussion
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Computer Assisted Reporting: where to go to get the goods on Congress and
the feds, opportunities and limitations |
x |
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