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

Federal IT Dashboard

Recovery.org

usaspending.gov

utahinteractive.org

data.gov

Topics This Week:

• Online access to records and information
• Wikileaks
• Access to government expenditures and use of funds
• National security and public safety issues
• Freedom of Information Act
• Utah GRAMA statute

Required Readings/Viewings:

• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Background & Policy Options for the 112th Congress, Congressional Research Service (July 26. 2011)
• Review the website at usaspending.gov.
• Review the website at utahinteractive.org.
• Review the website at data.gov.
• Classified Information Policy & Executive Order 13526, Congressional
• Drastic Measures Required: Congress Needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment, Report by Mike German and Jay Stanley (July 2011)
• http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/testimony-ellen-miller-house-oversight/
• http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/

Research Service Report (December 10, 2010)

• Drastic Measures Required: Congress Needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment, Report by Mike German and Jay Stanley (July 2011)

Guest Presenter(s):

• Daniel Schuman, The Sunlight Foundation, Washington, DC
• Senator Wayne Niederhauser, vice chair, Utah Transparency Advisory Board

Student Presenter(s)

• Marianne Carpenter

Books

• Access to Public Records: A Primer on the New Public Records Law
• WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
• Freedom of Information Act

Journal Articles

• Public Security and Wire Tapping
• Peering into the Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004–2009
• Games Bureaucrats Play: Hide and Seek Under the Freedom of Information Act

Popular Media

• Federal Budget Spending: Deficits, the National Debt, and Social Security
• Bloomberg Government