Expert Labs: Putting The 'Public' Into Public Policy Wasn't Easy
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Thursday, March 29 2012
The closing down of an effort known as Expert Labs this month acted as a marker of sorts in the open government movement. Epitomizing the general ethos of the time, here was a group of Internet-famous hipster technologists and personalities who had decided to storm the barricades and focus their collective attention on helping the federal government to break out of the Beltway bubble to connect better with the public when making policy decisions. Why shouldn't the world be excited about what kind of change they could potentially bring about? As the organization closes up shop, here's a look at what it did after launching in 2010. Read More
Beth Noveck's Transparency Suggestions For Bringing Better Data Through the DATA Act
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, July 7 2011
Two competing initiatives from the House of Representatives and White House respectively fall short of their stated goal to increase transparency around government spending, former White House Deputy Chief Technology ... Read More
U.S.'s Noveck to Help Open British Government
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, May 16 2011
Photo credit: Joi Ito Beth Noveck, until January the Obama administration's point person on open government, has been recruited to the British government to help in its "open-source policy making" efforts, ... Read More
"The Two Tribes of Open Government"?
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, May 9 2011
The Project on Government Oversight's Danielle Brian takes issue with former White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck's breaking down of the open government space into "Good government reformers who focus on a certain ... Read More
Why "Open Government" is Terrible Branding (Or, Whatever Happended to Participation and Collaboration?)
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, April 14 2011
Looking back, "open government" was a dumb thing to call the Obama administration's early forays into innovative online work (as in, the White House's "Open Government Initiative") writes Beth Noveck, ... Read More
A Map of the U.S. Open Government World
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, April 6 2011
GovLoop, GOOD, former U.S. Deputy CTO Beth Noveck, and open gov researcher Angie Newell team up to create a clickable visualization that maps out more than 350 federal open government projects. Read More
Noveck on Lessons Learned
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, March 23 2011
In a 1-2-3-part interview with Asia-based FutureGov, former U.S. Deputy Beth Noveck argues a point that seems to be gaining traction in open government circles: that while the "institutionalization" of open ... Read More
White House Taps Top City CIO to Replace Beth Noveck as Deputy CTO for Innovation
BY Nick Judd | Monday, February 28 2011
Chris Vein, widely known as the groundbreaking chief information officer for the city of San Francisco, has departed for the White House, you may have heard already from Luke Fretwell at Fedscoop. His new title, ... Read More
W.H. Open Gov Lead on Why She's Headed Back to Academia
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, January 11 2011
Beth Simone Noveck; photo credit: Joi Ito Read More