Towards a More Open

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Argues that building code beats waiting for consensus, showing concrete wins: Sunlight Labs uses Python, Ruby, PHP and Drupal to parse legislative sites, producing a 50 state project that goes from 0 to 43 states parsed in weeks; openCongress aggregates bills (one bill has 228 comments, another 20–30k) and attracted FEC traffic after a redesign comp. Pushes for bulk data, REST APIs (JSON/XML) and visualizations (CapitalWords, Google motion charts) as the fastest path to usable, accountable government, and runs hackathons to make it happen.

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1. 0:00Open government intro
2. 3:42Transparency and democracy
3. 10:44Changing transparency challenges
4. 14:14Developers accelerating transparency
5. 21:01Organizing for transparency
6. 27:18Redesigning agency websites
7. 30:26Visualizing government data
8. 35:04Joining open government
9. 37:55Q&A

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