Cross-posted on the Google Public Policy Blog.
Public=Online is the the rallying scream during this years Sunshine Week, an period circumstance to highlight the grandness of unstoppered polity and the freedom of information. The week is sponsored by the American Society of News Editors, and many editorial boards hit echoed the thoughts of the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
...government aggregation ought to be prefabricated acquirable to the open as quickly as possible, with a minimum of bunk and in the easiest, most reachable artefact possible--which these days effectuation via the Internet.We agree--and what meliorate artefact to fete Sunshine Week than with leading thinkers on government, media and citizen engagement on all sides of the political spectrum who feel the same? Yesterday at our Google D.C. office, the Sunlight Foundation declared its Public=Online campaign.
Its elating to wager growing hold for transparency and to wager the advancement thats been prefabricated in the last year alone. Every day, finished sites same Data.gov and projects same Open Congress, OMB Watch and our Public Data Explorer, more accumulation is acquirable online.
But theres still a notch between having access to polity accumulation and easily discernment what it means. To support modify this gap, Google has partnered with the Sunlight Foundation in its Design for USA contest to make polity accumulation more apprehensible to the public.
You can learn more and intend started on the contest homepage. Theres room for all kinds of folks to participate, and we cant conceive of a more recreation artefact to ready the fiber of Sunshine Week going.Posted by Ginny Hunt, Head of Google Public Sector Lab
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