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Title: Government Data and the Invisible Hand
Author : Yale Journal of Law & Technology
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
Pages : * pages
Size : 98 KB

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INTRODUCTION If President Barack Obama's new administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately compelling strategy: reduce the federal role in presenting important government information to citizens. Today, government bodies consider their own Web sites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing Web sites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.