La revolución de cristal de Obama
La Casa Blanca ha dado un enorme impulso a la transparencia
Los ciudadanos pueden conocer hasta quién visita al presidente y sus donaciones electorales
Cristina F. Pereda Washington18 MAR 2012 - 05:24 CET
オバマ大統領は、政府の情報公開法を推し進める
The Obama revolution glass
The White House has given a huge boost to transparency
Citizens can learn to anyone visiting the president and his campaign contributions
Government: the end of the secret?
Cristina F. Pereda Washington 18 MAR 2012 - 05:24 CET
The White House has given a huge boost to transparency
Citizens can learn to anyone visiting the president and his campaign contributions
Government: the end of the secret?
Cristina F. Pereda Washington 18 MAR 2012 - 05:24 CET
It all started with a campaign promise. Barack Obama was presented to the 2008 elections as the candidate that would revolutionize the government by opening to the public. He bet on the philosophy that understands democracy as equal access to information and control tools available on decision-makers.
Obama promised to data, figures, details. Transparency.
The promise of the now president was not easy to fulfill. The White House took just four months to launch data.gov, a site with 250,000 databases of government information. From state budgets to what the U.S. spends on foreign aid, the cost of meals program in public schools across the country or a history of statistics on cancer patients. The decision was brave, but during these three years many have feared to stay in a symbolic gesture: All data and were public before and the only novelty lay in putting them all together in the same portal, available to any citizen.
Three years it took for the government to reveal a set of secret data so far: the records of trips and visits to the White House. The Information Office of the President gathers for about seven days Ethics.gov government databases. Citizens can find out the names of all persons who have met with a member of the Administration. And for the first time ever, the page, linking databases together, allowing identities relate to figures from private donations to political campaigns, contributions from lobbyists and lobbyists to complaints of ethical violations.
Any application received more than 25,000 signatures of citizens are guaranteed a response from the Government
"There is no need to go from one agency to another, from one website to another and establish connections later. And when you combine all data together complete a very interesting portrait, "said John Wonderlich, policy director of the Sunlight Foundation, an organization that promotes the use of technology to increase the transparency of power. Wonderlich, who has personally advised on five occasions to members of the White House during these three years, recognizes that the end result is pretty close to what at first imagined, despite the obstacles imposed by privacy laws and the difficulty for collaboration between agencies and departments. "It's very similar to what we had suggested. During these years we thought they would never publish it, but there it is. Obama will make progress in this regard, will put more information available to citizens, "he says.
The process has been slow but steady. In early 2009, the president appointed the first chief information officer of the U.S. government, Vivek Kundra. He was then baptized by the Washington Post as "technology czar" and its mission was to execute the will of the president: to revolutionize the inner workings of the U.S. federal government, cut bureaucratic costs, opening the doors to the public and provide tools with which control the power.
Shortly after FiscalStability.gov reach the page that renders the accounts of fiscal stabilization plan, or Recovery.gov, where you can verify the destination of every dollar invested in the bailout of 2009, how much has been spent, how and where. "There is a problem right now," Kundra acknowledged last September in Boston. "Citizens do not know all the information they have access. There must be a radical change to give all power to the people. "
The engineer and defended the change in philosophy that the government of Obama has sought to inject into the rusted administrative machinery of the country. Take several years, perhaps more than a decade, but can become one of the great tracks that Obama print in the history of the federal government. At the end of the day, it was the first president to understand how the Internet has forever changed how we access information, that the authorities are increasingly difficult to control data flows that reach citizens and that these - as he showed as a candidate-can become loyal allies when they were courts beyond social networks.
U.S. has more than 2,000 digital data centers and invests año18.000 million in information technology
U.S. has more than 2,000 digital data centers and invests each year of $ 24,000 million (18,000 million euros) in information technology. Kundra recalls that one of the early days in his new position was a stack of documents "all printed and stapled." Within months this pioneer advocate of accommodation data "in the cloud," the Americans had saved more than 3,000 million dollars (about 2,200 million euros) creating technology at home, instead of buying it for inflated prices. Today Obama gets updates from his advisers on an iPad. "We need to drastically restructure the way we organize work," Kundra said at the launch of Data.gov. By putting as much information as possible available to citizens, the Government has begun to recognize "that does not have a monopoly on the best ideas and not on solutions to our major problems."
This philosophy is heir to the open source movement that began in the nineties. A revolution led by computer engineers, creative, innovative and organizations using the Internet as a platform whose mission is to put the information into the hands of citizens and let's use these to control the power. Wire of the same web wove the White House We the People a website where anyone can propose an initiative. The request received over 25,000 signatures of citizens are guaranteed a response from the Government. Well managed, for example, that Obama's advisers give their opinion on the piracy laws that Congress considered earlier this year, revealing its rejection.
The House of Representatives follows suit. Rep. Steny Hoyer, codirector of a project to bring legislative activity to citizens with the help of Facebook-publishing, for example, all bills, with amendments as connected to the public profiles of politicians, acknowledged in December that Parliament "can only serve the citizens if they are informed and if [legislators] constantly inform us."
But Ethics.gov, Data.gov and the result of similar efforts by Congress comes much later than other projects and media organizations already approaching this type of data to the public. The Sunlight Foundation found itself how difficult it is to navigate the machinery of U.S. government agencies with Influence Explorer, where political connected firms that influence their decisions. The Pro Publica through research released from private donations to candidates from the Republican primary to a browser to look up all the public schools is also accessible from Facebook. The New York Times, who leads this trend in the media, created Schoolbook.org from databases related to education and only a few weeks ago got access to the classification of teachers in public schools across the state.
Obama promised to data, figures, details. Transparency.
The promise of the now president was not easy to fulfill. The White House took just four months to launch data.gov, a site with 250,000 databases of government information. From state budgets to what the U.S. spends on foreign aid, the cost of meals program in public schools across the country or a history of statistics on cancer patients. The decision was brave, but during these three years many have feared to stay in a symbolic gesture: All data and were public before and the only novelty lay in putting them all together in the same portal, available to any citizen.
Three years it took for the government to reveal a set of secret data so far: the records of trips and visits to the White House. The Information Office of the President gathers for about seven days Ethics.gov government databases. Citizens can find out the names of all persons who have met with a member of the Administration. And for the first time ever, the page, linking databases together, allowing identities relate to figures from private donations to political campaigns, contributions from lobbyists and lobbyists to complaints of ethical violations.
Any application received more than 25,000 signatures of citizens are guaranteed a response from the Government
"There is no need to go from one agency to another, from one website to another and establish connections later. And when you combine all data together complete a very interesting portrait, "said John Wonderlich, policy director of the Sunlight Foundation, an organization that promotes the use of technology to increase the transparency of power. Wonderlich, who has personally advised on five occasions to members of the White House during these three years, recognizes that the end result is pretty close to what at first imagined, despite the obstacles imposed by privacy laws and the difficulty for collaboration between agencies and departments. "It's very similar to what we had suggested. During these years we thought they would never publish it, but there it is. Obama will make progress in this regard, will put more information available to citizens, "he says.
The process has been slow but steady. In early 2009, the president appointed the first chief information officer of the U.S. government, Vivek Kundra. He was then baptized by the Washington Post as "technology czar" and its mission was to execute the will of the president: to revolutionize the inner workings of the U.S. federal government, cut bureaucratic costs, opening the doors to the public and provide tools with which control the power.
Shortly after FiscalStability.gov reach the page that renders the accounts of fiscal stabilization plan, or Recovery.gov, where you can verify the destination of every dollar invested in the bailout of 2009, how much has been spent, how and where. "There is a problem right now," Kundra acknowledged last September in Boston. "Citizens do not know all the information they have access. There must be a radical change to give all power to the people. "
The engineer and defended the change in philosophy that the government of Obama has sought to inject into the rusted administrative machinery of the country. Take several years, perhaps more than a decade, but can become one of the great tracks that Obama print in the history of the federal government. At the end of the day, it was the first president to understand how the Internet has forever changed how we access information, that the authorities are increasingly difficult to control data flows that reach citizens and that these - as he showed as a candidate-can become loyal allies when they were courts beyond social networks.
U.S. has more than 2,000 digital data centers and invests año18.000 million in information technology
U.S. has more than 2,000 digital data centers and invests each year of $ 24,000 million (18,000 million euros) in information technology. Kundra recalls that one of the early days in his new position was a stack of documents "all printed and stapled." Within months this pioneer advocate of accommodation data "in the cloud," the Americans had saved more than 3,000 million dollars (about 2,200 million euros) creating technology at home, instead of buying it for inflated prices. Today Obama gets updates from his advisers on an iPad. "We need to drastically restructure the way we organize work," Kundra said at the launch of Data.gov. By putting as much information as possible available to citizens, the Government has begun to recognize "that does not have a monopoly on the best ideas and not on solutions to our major problems."
This philosophy is heir to the open source movement that began in the nineties. A revolution led by computer engineers, creative, innovative and organizations using the Internet as a platform whose mission is to put the information into the hands of citizens and let's use these to control the power. Wire of the same web wove the White House We the People a website where anyone can propose an initiative. The request received over 25,000 signatures of citizens are guaranteed a response from the Government. Well managed, for example, that Obama's advisers give their opinion on the piracy laws that Congress considered earlier this year, revealing its rejection.
The House of Representatives follows suit. Rep. Steny Hoyer, codirector of a project to bring legislative activity to citizens with the help of Facebook-publishing, for example, all bills, with amendments as connected to the public profiles of politicians, acknowledged in December that Parliament "can only serve the citizens if they are informed and if [legislators] constantly inform us."
But Ethics.gov, Data.gov and the result of similar efforts by Congress comes much later than other projects and media organizations already approaching this type of data to the public. The Sunlight Foundation found itself how difficult it is to navigate the machinery of U.S. government agencies with Influence Explorer, where political connected firms that influence their decisions. The Pro Publica through research released from private donations to candidates from the Republican primary to a browser to look up all the public schools is also accessible from Facebook. The New York Times, who leads this trend in the media, created Schoolbook.org from databases related to education and only a few weeks ago got access to the classification of teachers in public schools across the state.
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