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Open Government Books
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Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as open-government)
avg rating 3.69 — 617 ratings — published 2013
Seven Trends That Will Transform Local Government Through Technology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2012
Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.51 — 68 ratings — published 2009
The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 4.14 — 109 ratings — published
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,920 ratings — published 2019
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 4.08 — 456 ratings — published 2024
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,345 ratings — published 2022
Open Government Data: The Book (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.71 — 21 ratings — published 2012
Big Promises, Small Government: Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.37 — 19 ratings — published
Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,189 ratings — published 2014
Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and American Democracy Under Siege (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.86 — 43 ratings — published 2020
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 4.14 — 608 ratings — published 2019
Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.34 — 29 ratings — published 1993
Moneyball for Government (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.16 — 101 ratings — published 2014
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.78 — 41 ratings — published 2013
Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.42 — 137 ratings — published 2013
Simpler: The Future of Government (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.58 — 535 ratings — published 2013
Applied Data Mining for Business and Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published 2007
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,322 ratings — published 2008
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.73 — 10,988 ratings — published 2006
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.91 — 817 ratings — published
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as open-government)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,141 ratings — published 2008
“I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.”
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“Noticing the disturbing similarity between the rhetoric surrounding "open government" and new public management, government expert Just Longo speculates that the former might be just a Trojan horse for the latter; in our excitement about the immense potential of new technologies to promote openness and transparency, we may have lost sight of the deeply political nature of the uses to which these technologies are put...
In India, recent digitization of land records and their subsequent publication online, while nominally an effort to empower the weak, may have actually empowered the rich and powerful. Once the digitized records were available for the whole world to see, some enterprising businessmen discovered that many poor families had no documents to prove ownership of land. In most cases, this was not the result of some nefarious land grab; local culture, with its predominantly oral ways of doing business, pervasive corruption, and poor literacy, partly explains why no such records exist...
The point here, as with most open-government schemes, is not that information shouldn't be collected or distributed; rather, it needs to be collected and distributed in full awareness of the social and cultural complexity of the institutional environment in which it is gathered.”
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In India, recent digitization of land records and their subsequent publication online, while nominally an effort to empower the weak, may have actually empowered the rich and powerful. Once the digitized records were available for the whole world to see, some enterprising businessmen discovered that many poor families had no documents to prove ownership of land. In most cases, this was not the result of some nefarious land grab; local culture, with its predominantly oral ways of doing business, pervasive corruption, and poor literacy, partly explains why no such records exist...
The point here, as with most open-government schemes, is not that information shouldn't be collected or distributed; rather, it needs to be collected and distributed in full awareness of the social and cultural complexity of the institutional environment in which it is gathered.”
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