Online Forum - Sunshine Week: ICT and Open Government
Across the globe, awareness of the importance of open government and freedom of information is spreading. The Sunshine Week is an initiative to encourage dialogue and raise calls for an increased level of public access.
The Online Forum: Sunshine Week: ICT and Open Government will discuss the role of ICT standards in providing transparency in governments across the world, including European Union Member States, the United States of America, Canada, and many others.
ICT solutions can contribute by providing services for participatory government, i.e. eGov 2.0 services, and create accessible databases etc. Another important issue is the need for standards in ensuring data portability.
Key questions during the forum will include:
- Can governments actually communicate with citizens via the web?
- Open government, egovernment, and government 2.0: what they mean, and why they should be on your radar.
- Standards and open data in government: how open is too open? How open should governments be? What are the implications for security?
- Will standards lead to government 2.0 innovations? Standardisation versus open innovation.
The forum will be held online starting 18 March 2010 at 16:00 - 20:00 GMT (8am Pacific, 11am Eastern time). The discussion will be built upon a handful of contributions which are available on the event website.
In order to participate to the forum the following steps have to be followed:
1. Click on the link to the forum
2. Read the articles
3. Add your comments and exchange ideas in real time.
A simultaneous chat will be running on Tweetchat at http://tweetchat.com/room/opengovchat. Â
Event email: niklas.lindblom@celec.euÂ
