Open government: [collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice]

This collection of essays, interviews, and case studies provides a multi-faceted and nonpartisan account of government as it becomes more transparent, collaborative, and participatory. Each chapter expresses the views of its prominent author, and the book as a whole offers a persuasive argument for transparency and interactivity in government at all levels. Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida and Washington D.C. He was a senior researcher on the New York Times bestselling The Buying of the President2004 by Charles Lewis. He is a specialist in campaign finance and computer assisted reporting, the practice of using data analysis to report the news. He writes code in Perl, Python and PHP. He was the primary architect of the data for the Center for Public Integrity's successful Lobbywatch project, which provided the first truly searchable online database of federal lobbying available to the general public. He supervised the data team that developed CPI's Power Trips investigation of Congressional junkets. Laurel Ruma is an editor at O'Reilly Media covering the Microsoft and Gov 2.0 topic areas. She is the co-chairfor the Gov 2.0 Expo. Laurel joined the company in 2005 after being an editorat various IT research/consulting firms in the Boston area, including Forrester Research. Laurel went to Union College and is a photographer and homebrewer.

• ISBN: 978-0-596-80435-0
• Editorial: O'Reilly
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 402
• Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés