Information & Ethics committee  Thank you again for having me. As a part answer to the last question, I think the real intersection between the cost savings agenda and the democratization agenda is the opportunity to create new processes for collaboration, by government working with the public, that will allo

Information & Ethics committee  Let me come back to something I mentioned earlier, which is to say first and foremost that I think we have a lot of work to do to marshal those arguments in a succinct and comprehensive way. And that's where I'm very excited about the work that the folks at National Oceanic and A

Information & Ethics committee  I didn't hear the question. I just rejoined you.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, if you refresh my memory then I will be helpful in what you'd like to hear.

Information & Ethics committee  I know, I'm sorry. And then my brain cells were all distracted trying to figure out how to use the video-conferencing equipment. So one of the key denouements.... You see, I build up a lot of suspense this way. The answer was that a lot of people are participating because they f

Information & Ethics committee  First, the academic literature is very clear in areas like open-source production in the technology industry. And I mean this not facetiously that a T-shirt can make the difference. So for people often the incentives.... And again, there is empirical data on incentives about belo

Information & Ethics committee  That's where the wiki part of it comes in. What I think is really missing from WikiLeaks is actually the “wiki” part of it.

Information & Ethics committee  In other words, I'm not speaking now.... I'm intentionally being counterintuitive, if you will, in trying to sort of face us forward as to where we go from here with regard to harnessing this interest. But you're precisely right about the salacious quality of tabloid magazines.

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's true, and I would strongly support what the other witnesses have said about the success and really the momentum. To me, the greatest success is the fact that there is a community that has been created with representation across every agency of people who are workin

Information & Ethics committee  Let me say that I have a slightly different take on this, a different focus on this perhaps from what you're driving at with your question. But the interest that the whole WikiLeaks incident has generated demonstrates to me a tremendous interest that the public has in foreign pol

Information & Ethics committee  Open government data specifically did not focus on national-security-related information, in order to not have to confront this serious problem. It is a serious problem, but we wanted to focus on a culture change that allowed people to work on getting out data that was, as someon

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's right. Oh, go ahead. Sorry.

Information & Ethics committee  It was always the bane of my existence that the Department of Justice had 300,000 Twitter followers and I only had 150,000 Twitter followers. So I think you are right that the average people on the street haven't heard of open government, nor frankly should they have heard of ope

Information & Ethics committee  I think I could probably speak to this issue. First, let me say that when we started the White House open government initiative, we thought it would be apropos to actually be open about the process of making an open government policy. For the very first time, we started by aski

Information & Ethics committee  As you may or may not have heard, my successor, if you will, the new United States deputy chief technology officer, with focus now on public sector innovation and open government, is actually the former CIO of the city and county of San Francisco. He has been one of the leaders i