What the Early 20th Century and the SOPA/PIPA Fight Have In Common
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, September 26 2012
As it happens, there's a connection between the SOPA/PIPA fight and sexuality and politics in 1920s Austria. That's the argument Beth Noveck made Monday at New York Law School, during an evening book event Personal Democracy Media hosted to discuss Steven Johnson's new book, "Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in the Networked Age." Noveck spoke alongside Tina Rosenberg, co-writer of the Fixes online column for the New York Times, Internet thinker Clay Shirky, and our editorial director, Micah Sifry. Read More
Coming Up: "The Rise of the 'Peer Progressive'" Monday 9/24 7pm in NYC
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, September 19 2012
We're looking forward to this Monday night's conversation on "The Rise of the 'Peer Progressive'" with author Steven Johnson that we're hosting along with NY Law School's Institute of Information Law & Policy. We'll ... Read More
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