There’s an open government policy boom, and now’s the time for tech communities to weigh in.
That’s one of the themes Alisha Green, a policy associate at the Sunlight Foundation, will address this month at Technical.ly’s Rise conference.
The two-day event will bring together civic tech leaders from the five markets we cover across the Northeast Corridor, to trade ideas and share their experience on topics like open government, community organizing and public-private partnerships.
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Green will be discussing the “best practices for crafting and implementing open data policy,” which, she said, is “achievable for governments with any size budget,” as long as they are dedicated.
Originally created to improve transparency at the federal level, the Dupont Circle-based nonprofit has become a key advocate for open government at the municipal level. In 2013, Sunlight received a $2.1 million grant from Google.org to conduct further research on the issue.
Sunlight has also been an advocate closer to home, weighing in on the roll-out of the mayor’s July directive. Green suggested in a blog post that the policy was still lacking in at least 11 ways — and potentially more. It did not, for instance, ensure a continuous access to data, require agencies to file electronically or extend the open policy to all public information.
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