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Daniel Schuman (@danielschuman)
- Twitter Bio:
- Advocate for government transparency and tongue-in-cheek humor. Opinions are mine.
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- Washington, DC
- Website:
- http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/
Daniel Schuman's Selections From the Web
Last December, the U.S. House of Representatives hosted its first ‘hackathon,’ which ended up being a soft of hybrid of unconference and code-a-thon in the House Oversight Committee’s offices. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the beta version of MADISON, a new online tool to crowd source legislative markup. The vision was that MADISON would work as a real-time markup engine to let the public comment on bills as they move through the legislative process. “The assumption is that legislation should be open in Congress,” said Issa. “It should be posted, interoperable and commented
This is second of two pieces about “managing expectations” (the first is here). Open data has come a long way in the last few years and so have expectations. There’s a danger if open data is seen as a panacea that will magically solve climate change or eliminate corruption because it will inevitably fail to do so and hope and enthusiasm will be replaced by disappointment and dis-engagement.This would be a tragedy as open data is valuable to us socially, commercially and culturally. However, we do need to think hard about how to make effective use of open data. Open data is usually only one part of a solution and we need to identify and work on
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