Nice coverage here: The end product of a “Wikileaks World” may not be greater openness or effective repression, but more pervasive “spin.” That is the message a leading British researcher and author brought to the first Global Conference on Transparency Research, being held at Rutgers University-Newark. “There doesn’t seem seem to be much to stop [...]
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Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation — a great access advocate at a great access advocacy shop — attended the first Global Conference on Transparency Research at Rutgers University-Newark, which brought together two hundred transparency researchers from around the world. Thanks to a post-surgical travel ban, I missed it, doggonit, but I thought I’d pass along his great [...]
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“Open Government: Beyond Static Measures” looks at the issue of metrics in transparency and examines some of the ways that access can be qualitatively measured. From the intro: The purpose of this paper is to introduce new indicators for measuring government openness. Existing open government indicators tend to focus either on the presence of key [...]
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Something that has worried me for a long time: New research brings to light some of the previously unrecognized risks that may jeopardize government openness and accountability as a result of the predicted “death of newspapers.” In a forthcoming study in the Washington & Lee Law Review, Brigham Young University law professor RonNell Andersen Jones undertakes [...]
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