Honors Think Tank On Transparency & Privacy in a Web 2.0 World: Week Two Resources

Open government Directive: The Whitehouse

Government Spending

Sunlight Foundation

Transparency in Government Act of 2008

Open Data Sets

Topics This Week:

1. History of institutional privacy
2. Constitutional/ legal issues and legislative approaches
3. The "Open Government" movement
4. Current trends & future issues

Required Readings:

• “Transparency,” a Gramicus white paper
• Against Transparency; The Perils of Openness in Government, Lawrence Lessig (Oct. 9, 2009).
• The Open Government Directive

Books

• Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age
• Moral responsibility and the professions
• Transparency in Government Operations

Journal Articles

• Crowdsourcing Government Transparency
• Government Transparency and Policy Making
• A comparative study of online privacy regulations in the US and China

Popular Media

• WikiLeaks: a powerful tool, not a substitute for radical action
• Losing Privacy in Route Plans