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Steven Clift

Questioning Candidates on Government Openness and Transparency - Pick your Top 5

While the mainstream media community raises awareness about open government each year during Sunshine Week, we need to push local up strategies that promote greater government transparency online so local citizen media has access to the raw "info" materials we need to improve democracy. We need to take a lesson from OMBWatch's Open Government online survey and ask questions of state and local candidate. Here is the survey introduction from OMBWatch: Open Government: What We Need to Know We deserve a more open and honest government. Elections are the time when politicians pay the most attention to people and issues,...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

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