#open_government

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wei-pO5fU4 Yesterday at the United Nations, President Barack Obama marked the Open Government Partnership's (OGP) third anniversary by announcing that in addition to the commitments outlined in the current U.S. OGP National Action Plan, "The United States will take additional steps to make our government more open, transparent, and accessible for all Americans." Among the multiple new commitments:...

The objectives of the Open e-Governance Index project are to: a) to further understand democratic e-governance, particularly through developing the discourse of “Open E- Governance”; b) to help develop policy on ICT and governance; and engage policy stakeholders directly, around the notions of “Open Governance”; and c) to develop a concrete resource for citizens/individuals, groups/non-government organizations to engage the policymakers on “Open E-Governance”.

Die UK-Regierung veröffentlicht ihre neue Webplattform als Open Source: "Why create an open source stack? "Why not?" asked Bracken."It's a government platform, and as such it belongs to us all and we want people to contribute and share in its development.""

Stephen Hawking