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The following sites were used in Conor Kenny's presentation on applications of government transparency at the Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency on May 15, 2009 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.

Contents 1 Example sites 1.1 Gov --> People 1.1.1 Collected data & research 1.1.2 Info on politics & policymaking 1.1.3 Info on gov. services & operations 1.2 Gov <--> People 1.2.1 The collaboration model 1.2.2 The "Get Satisfaction" Model 1.3 People --> Gov 1.3.1 Adopting outside models 1.4 FIN

Example sites

Gov --> People

Collected data & research

• The National Weather Service (Weather.gov)
• The Weather Channel / Weather.com
• AccuWeather.com

Info on politics & policymaking

• Sunlight Foundation
• Center for Responsive Politics / OpenSecrets.org
• Sunlight Foundation's Party Time
• OpenCongress.org - a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation
• MAPLight.org - "Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection"
• SubsidyScope

• National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 on OpenCongress.org
• Rick Santorum's OpenCongress wiki profile on the weather bill.
• Robert P. King, "Feds' weather information could go dark," Palm Beach Post, April 21, 2005.
• Chris Potter, "Top 20 reasons to vote against Rick Santorum," Pittsburgh City Paper, Oct. 26, 2006.

Info on gov. services & operations

• Chicago crime data (formerly chicagocrime.org) on EveryBlock
• DC police department's crime map.
• EDGAR at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Carl Malamud's bio at Wikipedia
  • Carl Malamud's Public.Resource.org (Carl's Twitter feed.)
  • Carl Malamud's Campaign for the Public Printer of the United States (more).
  • New York Times article on Carl's totally punk rock effort to make law libraries available online.

Gov <--> People

The collaboration model

• Peer-to-Patent Project of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Future of Melbourne wiki project
  • Mark Elliott - Future of Melbourne's coordinator. (Mark's Twitter feed.)

The "Get Satisfaction" Model

• Get Satisfaction
• Fix My Street by the awesome people at UK's MySociety.org.
  • MySociety's HearFromYourMP, another "Get Satisfaction" model project.
  • MySociety's No. 10 Petitions, built for 10 Downing Street, now available to be re-branded and re-purposed for the city council level.
  • MySociety's WriteToThem.

People --> Gov

Adopting outside models

• FedSpending.org
• USASpending.gov
• Apps For Democracy.

FIN

Conor Kenny

• Twitter.com/ConorKenny
• ckenny@conorkenny.net