Cross-posted on the Google Public Policy Blog.
Public=Online is the the rallying scream during this years Sunshine Week, an annual circumstance to particular the importance of unstoppered polity and the immunity of information. The hebdomad is sponsored by the American Society of News Editors, and some editorial boards have echoed the thoughts of the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
...government aggregation ought to be prefabricated acquirable to the open as apace as possible, with a peak of rigmarole and in the easiest, most reachable artefact possible--which these days effectuation via the Internet.We agree--and what meliorate artefact to celebrate Sunshine Week than with directive thinkers on government, media and citizen engagement on all sides of the semipolitical spectrum who wager the same? Yesterday at our Google D.C. office, the Sunlight Foundation declared its Public=Online campaign.
Its exciting to wager growing support for image and to wager the progress thats been prefabricated in the last assemblage alone. Every day, through sites same Data.gov and projects same Open Congress, OMB Watch and our Public Data Explorer, more data is acquirable online.
But theres ease a notch between having admittance to polity data and easily discernment what it means. To help fill this gap, Google has partnered with the Sunlight Foundation in its Design for USA oppose to make polity data more apprehensible to the public.
You can learn more and intend started on the oppose homepage. Theres shack for all kinds of folks to participate, and we cant think of a more recreation artefact to keep the fiber of Sunshine Week going.Posted by Ginny Hunt, Head of Google Public Sector Lab
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