Pages tagged transparency:

How Obama Will Use Web Technology
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/24/how-obama-will-use-web-technology/

web 2.0 and collaborative communication
Techcrunch
open-source democracy.
Obama nutzt die Onlinedienste von Google, Facebook etc auch als Präsident. Spannende Entwicklung, neben der bejahenden Tech-Sicht fehlt noch die kritischere Hinterfragung.
An Open Transition
http://open-government.us/
President-elect Obama has made a clear commitment to changing the way government relates to the People. His campaign was a demonstration of the value in such change, and a glimpse of its potential. His transition team has now taken a crucial step in making the work of the transition legally shareable, demonstrating that the values Obama spoke of are values that will guide his administration. To further support this commitment to change, and to help make it tangible, we offer three “open transition principles” to guide the transition in its use of the Internet to produce the very best in open government.
President-elect Obama has made a very clear commitment to changing the way government works with its citizens. To this end, we offer these three principles to guide the transition in its objective to build upon the very best of the Internet to produce the very best for government.
Thoughts on how to make the transition between presidential administrations as open and transparent as possible.
President-elect Obama has made a very clear commitment to changing the way government works with its citizens.
http://open-government.us/
RGBa Browser Support
http://css-tricks.com/rgba-browser-support/
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Too bad it doesn't work in shitty IE..
RGBa is a way to declare a color in CSS that includes alpha transparency support. Since IE supports conditional stylesheets, we can bust out those and a proprietary Microsoft CSS filter to accomplish the same result.
FinancialStability.gov
http://financialstability.gov/
obama's fc plan
obama plan website
A few weeks ago Obama's new secretary or treasury Tim Geitner unveiled the outlines of a plan to fix the financial crisis in our Country. One of the problems with these massive plans from the government is that citizens want to know exactly where their money is going. This is the treasury secretary's answer to that problem this site will document where all the money for the proposed plan will be documented and will be able to track.
Obama run site to track stimuls package spending
RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rssstimulus RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw
Via David: Obama segna un punto per la trasparenza. Il pacchetto stimulus richiede alle agenzie governative di produrre un feed con le elargizioni di denaro. Gov meshup, here we come.
The US Government are requiring agencies to publish funding information through RSS feeds. "For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription."
the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS: For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.
"the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS:"
As chaunceyt pointed out, the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS
sweet sweet RSS nozzle
"For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription." --- Now, someone needs to figure out where each of these feeds is (will be?) published, and write an aggregator so that there's a one-stop-shopping end-point.
"[T]he new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS… The document is very clear that the items in the feed can’t simply be unstructured text, but have to be reusable data… Pretty amazing to see a government so tech-savvy."
Supersleight jQuery Plugin for Transparent PNGs in IE6 — All in the head
http://allinthehead.com/retro/338/supersleight-jquery-plugin
{shim: '/img/transparent.gif'}
I never meant to become obsessive about getting PNG transparency working nicely in IE6. In the summer of 2003, I hit across a situation on a client project where what the designer wanted required the use of PNG transparency. The script that came to hand to get this working in IE6 at the time was called Sleight, but that only dealt with applying the filter to IMG elements. My design needed to do the same for CSS background images, so I hacked up a different version of the script for that purpose, called it bgSleight, and occasionally updated it.
Data.gov
http://www.data.gov/
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead.
WOW "The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government."
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
The new U.S. federal open data site is live! "Data.gov will open up the workings of government by making economic, healthcare, environmental, and other government information available on a single website, allowing the public to access raw data and transform it in innovative ways."
TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker
http://www.tosback.org/timeline.php
privacy statement, terms of service
TOSBack keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.
Great new tool from the Electronic Frontier Foundation which allows you to see when a companies online Terms of Service/Privacy Policy is changed
OSBack keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.
The Terms-Of-Service Tracker
Federal IT Dashboard
http://it.usaspending.gov/
157 Investments Evaluated by Agency CIOs Arrow View detailed chart by agency Note: All descriptions, dates, and costs are as reported by agencies. Major investments (Investments Evaluated) represent only a portion of the agency's entire IT portfolio reported in Exhibit 53.
drupal site
Legistalker
http://legistalker.org/
WA State Congressional delegation tracker
Legistalker combs a variety of news, social networking, and government sites to pool information about members of the U.S. Congress. Searching for a Senator or Representative will return mentions of that individual in the media, Twitter updates, YouTube videos, Capitol Words—a nifty weighted cloud of the words they've used in interviews and floor speeches—and their voting record which includes what they've introduced and votes yes or no on.
Breaks down references to U.S. representatives and senators in the news, on Twitter, and on YouTube.
An accountable government requires an informed citizenry. Every day, Congress relies more and more on the Internet to communicate with the world. Legistalker makes it easy for you to stay on top of what your elected officials say and how they vote. Legistalker was created by Forum One Communications as an entry for the Apps for America competition. The ever-growing database is updated every 20 seconds, and relies on data from Twitter, YouTube, Capitol Words, literally hundreds of different news sources, and others.
Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/
Fascinating internal twitter docs - via Stefan
“If we had a billion users, that will be the pulse of the planet.
Twitter's strategy leaked by Arrington
Joho the Blog » Transparency is the new objectivity
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/19/transparency-is-the-new-objectivity
"..Objectivity without transparency increasingly will look like arrogance. And then foolishness. Why should we trust what one person — with the best of intentions — insists is true when we instead could have a web of evidence, ideas, and argument?.."
Interesting post about bloggers, journalism, and how we require the abiliity to peer through an author's thoughts to dig at the sourcs of their [objective] arguments.
David Weinberger explains a phrase he coined: "transparency is the new objectivity."
"Objectivity used be presented as a stopping point for belief: If the source is objective and well-informed, you have sufficient reason to believe. [...] We thought that that was how knowledge works, but it turns out that it’s really just how paper works. [...] Objectivity is a trust mechanism you rely on when your medium can’t do links"
"In fact, transparency subsumes objectivity. Anyone who claims objectivity should be willing to back that assertion up by letting us look at sources, disagreements, and the personal assumptions and values supposedly bracketed out of the report. Objectivity without transparency increasingly will look like arrogance. And then foolishness. Why should we trust what one person — with the best of intentions — insists is true when we instead could have a web of evidence, ideas, and argument? In short: Objectivity is a trust mechanism you rely on when your medium can’t do links. Now our medium can."
David Weinberger - his keynote at Open Government and Innovation conference draws on this post
[Blog entry] via elanguage
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org
http://www.newsless.org/2009/08/the-3-key-parts-of-news-stories-you-usually-dont-get/
DataMasher
http://www.datamasher.org/
Infográficos de dados públicos
1. Pick a data set - /> orange circle Poverty Rate 2. Choose an operator - /> choose: - × ÷ 3. Pick another data set - /> blue circle Unemployment Your Mashup! - /> venn diagram Poverty Rate Unemployment
To empower people to discover and discuss government data through manipulation and mapping.
DataMasher is a tool that takes these vast quantities of information and allows you to whittle it down into simpler terms, offering an easy way to get hard data on certain topics without any intrusive media spin.
Open Government Innovation Gallery
http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/innovations/
Examples of open government in USA
USA initiatives in eGov and eP
In the Innovations Gallery, the public can browse examples of new ways in which agencies across the Executive branch are using transparency, participation, and collaboration to achieve their mission.
"The Innovations Gallery celebrates the innovators and innovations who are championing the President’s vision of more effective and open government."
The Innovations Gallery celebrates the innovators and innovations who are championing the President’s vision of more effective and open government. In the Innovations Gallery, the public can browse examples of new ways in which agencies across the Executive branch are using transparency, participation, and collaboration to achieve their mission.
EXAMPLES listed on WhiteHouse.gov
list of innovations by the White House that are open to participation
Übersicht der Gov Web Innovationen des White House
WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.
Welcome to OpenInternet.gov
http://www.openinternet.gov/
US government launch the OpenInternet. Gov site It includes videos, statements and discussion on all Federal Communication Commission activities on the issue, including coverage of broadband.
OpenInternet.gov is a place to join the discussion about the important issues facing the future of the Internet. Through this site you can stay connected to all FCC activities on the issue, and share your thoughts and ideas on open Internet.
OpenInternet.gov is a place to join the discussion about the important issues facing the future of the Internet.
OpenSecrets | OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData - Capital Eye
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/04/opensecretsorg-goes-opendata.html
Portal que intenta hacer pública información sobre los secretos de Washington DC
RT @cshirky: RT THIS is a big deal. OpenSecrets.org releases 200 million [gov't] data records. Today. http://bit.ly/fdXS [from http://twitter.com/danielgillval/statuses/1512025784]
Measuring Link-Bait of Articles I have flagged in the past.
OpenSecrets.org opens up its data -- feel free to mashup information on campaign finacnce, lobbying, personal finances and much more
Copyright Watch | Global Transparency in Copyright Law
http://www.copyright-watch.org/
Copyright Watch, hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is designed for the purposes of sharing and comparing the copyright laws of countries around the world. As the world has become connected through the Internet the creation and global sharing of content has become very easy. At the same time the misuse of copyrighted content has become easier too. Sometimes copyright violations may be the result of conflicting copyright laws. Copyright Watch aims to provide a place where copyright laws can be compared and changes to copyright laws can be updated. Applications for Education Copyright Watch could be useful for teaching about the differences between copyright laws. Copyright Watch might also be useful as a part of a discussion about the purpose of copyright laws.
Copyright Watch collects and monitors copyright laws from all over the world.
Global Transparency in Copyright Law. "Copyright Watch was begun by an international group of copyright experts, drawn from the Access to Knowledge community. We’d like to thank Corporacion Innovarte, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), the International Federation of Library Associations, Professor Michael Geist, the Third World Network, and the Bangalore Centre for Internet and Society for their support."
Fabulous website to checkout if you are unsure of what copyright laws exist in which countries?
24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour
http://24ways.org/2009/working-with-rgba-colour
using RGBA color
Alpha Transparency in PNG-8 Images Without Using Fireworks | ethanandjamie.com
http://www.ethanandjamie.com/blog/37-user-interface/81-png8-transparency-without-fireworks
Simple Alpha PNG-8 Tutorial with pngquant
SitePoint » Obama’s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/19/obama-groundbreaking-use-semantic-web
To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my… This is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn’t think the government even knew what an RSS feed was :)
Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html
This is the loss of freedom we face when our privacy is taken from us. This is life in former East Germany, or life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And it's our future as we allow an ever-intrusive eye into our personal, private lives. Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not deliberately hiding anything when we seek out private places for reflection or conversation. We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a basic human need. For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain future -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.
Bruce Schneier once again gets good mileage out of his earlier essay on the value of privacy. This time quoting portions in response to a remark made by Eric Schmidt with the typical "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" argument.
Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.
Transparency Corps
http://transparencycorps.org/
Elechanical turk de la transpatencia
US Transparency crowd sourcing website
Coordinates distributed digitization of government data as well as things like finding state officials on Twitter. Great example of both microvolunteering and the ecosystem needed for creating an effective evaluatory section of the government cycle.
Transparency Corps is the Sunlight Foundation's answer to the question, "How can I help?". There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference.
awesome! Sunlight's http://transparencycorps.org project now asks for help crowdsourcing national directory of state officials on Twitte ... [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/3058548525]
There are many big problems that we can solve with technology, but we can't solve them all. For many of the projects that make government transparency a reality, human eyes and analysis are required. With Transparency Corps, we break those tasks down into short, small actions that make a BIG difference. Join the Corps, and let's get started!
Official Google Blog: The meaning of open
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
As Google product managers, you are building something that will outlast all of us, and none of us can imagine all the ways Google will grow and touch people's lives. In that way, we are like our colleague Vint Cerf, who didn't know exactly how many networks would want to be part of this "Internet" so he set the default to open. Vint certainly got it right. I believe we will too.
Google Manifesto
CSS Transparency in All The Browsers | Design Dazzling
http://www.designdazzling.com/2010/01/css-transparency-in-all-the-browsers/
CSS Transparency in All The Browsers | Design Dazzling
35 Inspiring Examples of Transparency in Logo Design
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/35-inspiring-examples-of-transparency-in-logo-design
Transparency effects in logo design help bring to life a digital mark, adding that extra level of depth and color. This showcase of examples provides some great
Mag Project
By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale - Anil Dash
http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/apple-secrecy-does-not-scale.html
The element of secrecy that's been required to maintain Apple's mystique has incurred an increasingly costly price.
Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some key elements: Great user experience and design, and an extraordinary secrecy punctuated by surprising reveals.
But the element of secrecy that's been required to maintain Apple's mystique has incurred an increasingly costly price. Apple must transform itself and leave its history of secrecy behind, not just to continue being innovative and to protect the fundamentals of its business, but because the cost of keeping these secrets has become morally and ethically untenable.
CSS Trick For A Scrolling Transparent Background Effect
http://www.fivefingercoding.com/xhtml-and-css/scrolling-transparent-background-effect
Learn an easy CSS trick to create a transparent scrolling background effect like that found on the Think Geek website, including fixes for IE6.
The ThinkGeek background effect explained
Showcase of Transparency in Web Design | Vandelay Design Blog
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/transparency/
Showcase of Transparency in Web Design | Vandelay Design Blog - http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/transparency/
CSS Opacity: A Comprehensive Reference | Impressive Webs Toronto
http://www.impressivewebs.com/css-opacity-reference/
17 Killer Mashups for Taking Control of Your Government
http://mashable.com/2008/11/13/government-mashups/
Julkishallinnon mashupeja.
The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/the-four-pillars-of-an-open-ci.html
Oivaltava artikkeli siitä, kenen kaikkien välillä ja mihin suuntaan datan tulee liikkua (hallinto-kansalaiset) (kansalaiset-hallinto) (hallinto-hallinto) ja (kansalaiset-kansalaiset) What we really want (or what I really want anyway) is not simply government transparency, but an open civic system - a civic system that operates, and flourishes, as a fully open system, for whatever level we happen to be talking about - federal, state, city, neighborhood, whatever. And transparency is a big part of that open civic system, but it is still only one part. In fact there are four parts to a functioning open civic system. These are:
Citizen to Citizen (C2C). Okay so now we have both open G2C and C2G data flows going, and that's great - huge amplification of civic activity, great realization of efficiency with regards to interaction between government and people. But there are all sorts of ways to improve civic life that don't really need to involve the government at all - what about those things? That's where Citizen to Citizen, or C2C, data flows come in. C2C is the citizens' brigade of data flow - it's the people doing it for themselves, whatever "it" happens to be. Clever Commute, in New Jersey, is one example of a great C2C data flow.
By John Geraci
Comments on Open Government (eGov in the UK)
Bulk Data Downloads: A Breakthrough in Government Transparency - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/bulk-data-downloads-government-transparency-breakthrough.html
Wow this is potentially huge! Thoughts? RT @timoreilly:Bulk Data Downloads:A Breakthrough in Government Transparency http://bit.ly/EizO3 [from http://twitter.com/jhelmus/statuses/1283585077]
On getting greater access to government documents and data, with an amendment now in the House
Leaks: Yahoo's secret layoff doublespeak revealed!
http://valleywag.com/5106184/yahoos-secret-layoff-doublespeak-revealed
Yahoo isn't firing people en masse — it's "getting fit." That noisome euphemism for today's layoffs of 1,500 people must have hissed forth from the brain of some overpaid management consultant. Likewise for pages upon pages of instructions on how to sack employees — which Valleywag has obtained.
These are some seriously morbid slides from a HR perspective.
Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for "Open Government Data"
http://razor.occams.info/pubdocs/opendataciviccapital.html
16 open data principles. Josh Tauberer
This document is a best practices guide for governments embracing the notion of "open data". It discusses why open government data is beneficial to society, i.e. how it is civic capital, and what kinds of technological considerations must be made when making government data open. The document is intended to be read both by web managers, who may wish to skip the final Recommendations section, and by government web developers.
This document is a best practices guide for governments embracing the notion of "open data". It discusses why open government data is beneficial to society, i.e. how it is civic capital, and what kinds of technological considerations must be made when making government data open. The document is intended to be read both by web managers, who may wish to skip the final Recommendations section, and by government web developers. By Joshua Tauberer
apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/14/facebook-and-radical-transparency-a-rant.html
Zuckerberg and gang may think that they know what’s best for society, for individuals, but I violently disagree. I think that they know what’s best for the privileged class. And I’m terrified of the consequences that these moves are having for those who don’t live in a lap of luxury.
Interesting insight from female scholar
Must read: Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) by researcher Danah Boyd http://j.mp/9EjHul – Jean-Luc Raymond (jeanlucr) http://twitter.com/jeanlucr/statuses/14000875802
Transparency in Web Design | CSS-Tricks
http://css-tricks.com/transparency-in-web-design/
La trasparenza nel web design
How is it done? Let's take a gander at four different ways. Each of them handling the illusion in a different way, and each completely appropriate depending on