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

Open Government Partnership

egovernment.org

Transparency Camp

OMB Watch

Sunlight Foundation

Publicmarkup.org

Topics This Week:

• Open/closed Executive Branch proceedings
• Online access to government

Readings/Viewings:

• Quantifying the Impact of Transparency, Larry Freed (February 22, 2011)
• Review the “Projects” tab at the Sunlight Foundation website available at http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/
• The Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service Report (January 28, 2011)
• Opinion of Colorado Court of Appeals in Henderson v. City of Fort Morgan, Appeal No. 10CA1409 (August 4, 2011)
• The Obama Administration's Commitment to Open Government: A Status report

Intro to the Courts

• United States Court System
• Structure of the Federal Courts
• Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts
• Federal Courts of Appeal

Guest Presenter(s):

• Rich Olsen, Utah General Manager, NIC, e-government provider

Student Presenter(s)

• Tanner Gould

Student Scribe

• Nicole Harris

Books

• Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
• Public Sector Transparency and Accountability: Making it Happen
• Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change

Journal Articles

• Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process
• No More Secret Laws: How Transparency of Executive Branch Legal Policy Doesn't Let the Terrorists Win
• Restoring faith in government: Transparency reform in the United States and the European Union

Popular Media

• Why do People Care About Transparency?