Tech guru and O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly has long been fascinated by Web 2.0 moving into government. In this audio interview from the 2009 Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, O'Reilly gets a chance to speak with US Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Director of the Open Government Initiative, professor and noted author Beth Noveck.
Early in Barak Obama's presidency he signed the Executive Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. His goal was to usher in a new era of government, one that is "more transparent, more participatory and more collaborative".
Part of Noveck's role has been to help build the tools and platforms that would make all of this possible. She speaks about her role and how to make new ideas and tools work in government the way it actually is.
In this fascinating audio interview, Noveck speaks about government's challenges, successes and a culture shift that is spreading among all government offices, not just the White House.
Beth Simone Noveck is the United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government. She directs the White House Open Government Initiative. She is on leave as a professor of law and Director of the Institure for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School and McClatchy visiting professor of communications at Stanford University. Dr. Novek taught in the areas of intellectual property, technology and first amendment law and founded their law school's "Do Tank", a legal and software R&D lab focused on developing technologies and policies to promote open government. Dr. Novek is the Author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (2009) and editor of The State at Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (2006).
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