http://gov2blog.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://gov2blog.wordpress.com http://gov2blog.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/transparencycamp-introductions/ http://gov2blog.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/transparencycamp-introductions/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:43:54 +0000 pahlkadot http://gov2blog.wordpress.com/?p=3 ]]> I’m here at TransparencyCamp in DC.  So far, a big win.  In the opening session, Clay Johnson and Peter Corbett asked each attendee to introduce him/herself with three words.  A format I’ve seen not work in other contexts, but it was great here.  About half way through I realized that people’s introductions were excellent in and of themselves, and I started writing them down.  Thankfully for all of us in the room, attendees went rapid-fire so I only got a smattering of them, but here are the ones I caught in the second half.  

• Open data rocks
• Change culture of secrecy
• Transparent government data
• Here to learn
• Open source process
• I heart librarians
• Investigative reporting
• Get it together
• Pentagon social network
• Enabling innovative software
• Make things visual
• Federal regulatory transparency
• Government-wide solutions
• Citizen-assembly based reform
• Visual design for analysis
• Information must flow
• Independence interactive intertwined
• Roadmap to accountability
• FOIA and crime reporting
• Open source api freedom
• Only in democracy
• Everyone can participate
• We work weekends
• Elite network transparency
• Crowdsourced policy development
• Government needs your help (someone from nancy pelosi’s office)
• Geek not nerd
• Congress constituent communications
• Grassroots policy formation
• Enabling government collaborative
• Imagining a citizen white house
• Collaborative curation
• Computer assisted reporting
• Visible oil budgets
• Transparency and healthcare
• Already tweeted this
• Local civic hacking
• Citizen engagement
• Make open the default
• Knowledge and data are different
• Keep output simple
• Democratize data
• Statistical data analysis
• Open source mapping open data
• Visualizing community innovation
• Participatory government booster
• Policy for everyone
• Open publishing communication
• Rural civic engagement
• Realtime voter sentiment
• Turning hope into policy
• Government without politicians
• More iphone apps
• Implementation makes it real
• Citizen web responsibility
• Help my sister care
• Need 140 characters
• Policy legal R&D
• Sustainable change this time
• The desert needs transparency
• Empower digital literacy
• Kill idea dinosaurs
• Dignity is optional
• We need more diversity

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