Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Tag Archives for open government
Ignoring the ROI of Openness
I am back from Berlin, where we were discussing at the google collaboratory how to evaluate the impact of open government. While the excitement about enterprise 2.0, government 2.0, and open government has been building, critical voices in organizations have … Continue reading
My Talk at the ISPRAT CIO Conference in Vienna
I am just coming back from a wonderful day of debate with Germany’s and Austria’s top policy makers in the information technology field. The conference headlined by the new German CIO was titled Information and Communication Technologies as Strategic Instruments … Continue reading
State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards
Just in time for the EU minsterial conference in Malmö, John Gotze brought together some of the most prominent thought leaders, including Don Tapscott, Tim O’Reilly and Lawrence Lessig, in the emerging field of Government 2.0 (“thinking government as a … Continue reading
Distributed Leadership for Open Value Creation
Distributed leadership is an important puzzle piece for making open value creation work. The internet gives us the tools to create open value, but that does not mean we will all be great at using them. In the following MIT-lecture, … Continue reading
The Logic of Open Value Creation
In 2009 we are confronted with new public policy and management approaches in mediated policy initiation and formulation (Obama’s Open Government Initiative), distributed intelligence gathering (the US intelligence communities Intellipedia), crowdsourcing of accountability (The Guardian’s British Parliament invoice scandal platform), … Continue reading
Strategizing Radical Transparency
Sometimes very simple ideas are counter-intuitive. Radical transparency clearly is one of them. Let me define the concept, ask why one would want (not) to go “radically transparent,†and how to implement the strategy. What is radical transparency? Radical transparency … Continue reading
World 2.0: Political Theory in Network Society
Political theory asks the question how do we create the good life? How good are historical and contemporary forms of governance and what can we do in order to improve governance for our contemporary and future societies? How do we … Continue reading
A New Governance Paradigm?
Yesterday, Vivek Kundra launched several open government initiatives, most importantly the site Data.gov. It makes raw governmental data available in machine-readable format and allows users to build applications with the data. This type of governance by opening up (radical transparency … Continue reading
One Rank to Rule them All: The Politics of Benchmarking
[Guestblog by Alexander Schellong] Almost a decade ago, the EU Commission started to measure the eGovernment progress of its member states (now 27) and select other countries. Whenever the new edition is published, the survey receives a lot of media … Continue reading
Bread and Games 2.0 (guest article)
This is a guest post by Sebastian Haselbeck. I recently wrote a critical comment on Philipp’s blog entry on a note by Ed Felten. Click here to read the original blog post. It dealt with the understanding of open government … Continue reading
