AmericaSpeaks’ mission is to reinvigorate American Democracy by engaging citizens in the public decision-making that most impacts their lives.
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AmericaSpeaks AmericaSpeaks' Top Ten of 2009: http://tinyurl.com/yjsf7pb
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AmericaSpeaks is creating innovative mechanisms for citizens to enhance their voice in public decision-making, and is renewing democracy by developing a national infrastructure for democratic deliberation
AmericaSpeaks Critique of the Open Government Directive by Meredith Fuchs of the National Security Archive
ACSblog | Open Government: Can the Obama Administration Really Make a Difference? | American Constit
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By Meredith Fuchs. Ms. Fuchs is the General Counsel of the National Security Archive, a private, non-governmental research institution located at George Washington University. A recent discussion on NPR's "Morning Edition" with Ms. ...
AmericaSpeaks High praise for AmericaSpeaks from our esteemed friends at CoVision. As we continue to integrate technology solutions with largescale face-to-face citzen egagement, it's stars and innovators like CoVision who will help build the future.
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The difficulty of democracy is how to let people deliberate, and yet come to a common voice, this is inherently a problem of scale – the more people you have (and the less time they have together), the ...
AmericaSpeaks Help shape the Open Government Dashboard
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WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.
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White House Office of Technology Policy is Conducting an Open Forum on Designing a Policy on Access to Federally Funded Research: http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/10/policy-f
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Yesterday we announced the launch of the Public Access Forum, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Beginning with today’s post, we look forward to a productive online discussion.
AmericaSpeaks Emerging 3D Technologies that will change planning and engagement
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Today, Keith Stuart at the Guardian, wrote an article on How the 3D engine is changing the world. He points out that gaming engines and technologies are starting to make their way into other fields ...
AmericaSpeaks Norm Eisen, Beth Noveck: Why Open Government Matters
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WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.
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If transparency is truly to promote accountability, then the public needs journalists to help discover, gather, compare, contextualize, and share the new information becoming available.
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White House lays out new data transparancy mandates—with deadlines.
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The White House issued on Tuesday a highly anticipated directive outlining how agencies should make operations more open and solicit public opinions, setting an aggressive timeline for them to implement the new practices.
The Open Government Directive has dropped. Here's what's in it -- and why it's a big deal. | techPre
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So we finally have our hands on the long-awaited Open Government Directive. In just eleven pages, it lays out the Obama Administration's vision for what transparent, participatory, and collaborative government ...
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Sunlight Foundation's Open Government Directive Timeline: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/
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Video from this morning's Open Government Directive Announcement: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/0
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On this, Open Government Directive release day -- a.k.a. Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa for good government geeks -- it's worth taking a look back at the vision for open government that Barack Obama laid out back on January 21st, 2009, with one full day of being president under his belt. ...
