Robert Cheetham, CEO of the extremely impressive GIS-focused Philadelphia firm Azavea and a colleague on the Open Data Philly initiative, passed this article on to me about open government - 10 Steps To Open Government.
It is a very interesting piece and brings to the forefront some of the critical questions of adoption that all of us who are passionate about open data, open government and participatory politics must address.
I was having a conversation on open, participatory government adoption a few days ago and came to the conclusion that very few people will ever directly adopt the concept of open government. It is to big and hard to grasp by itself.
What I believe will find very wide and passionate adoption are concrete services that are based on that open-ness. All of us, every citizen cares about certain issues, their kids, schools, work and community and would like to make it better. If there are services that can be advanced through open government principles then great, but the philosophy itself will likely be pushed aside for more immediate needs.
As we have all been working; it is the concrete, non-technical, solution-oriented application, report or tool that will galvanize the public, I believe, and show them the value of open.
Every one remembers that today's life seems to be expensive, but people require cash for different things and not every one earns big sums money. Therefore to get some mortgage loans or auto loan would be good solution.
Posted by: LynchRuth33 | December 30, 2011 at 10:13 PM