Micah Sifry

Co-Founder, Personal Democracy Forum

Open Government
59 minutes, 27.1mb, recorded 2011-04-18
Micah Sifry

One of the great aspects of 21st century technology is the ability to use and keep track of public information. Unfortunately, many government agencies choose not to take advantage of the ways to communicate with the public. Micah Sifry returns to Technometria to discuss the status of open government.

In addition to talking about such issues as Wikileaks, he reviews the open government movement, as well as how some local governments are coming up with ways to allow the public to report issues to agencies.


Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics and TechPresident.com, its award-winning group blog on how the American presidential candidates are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. The Avi Chai Foundation is also currently a client. In the past, he and Rasiej have consulted for the New York State Senate CIO's Office, Air America, the Campaign for America's Future, the Brennan Center, and the Regional News Network.

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