Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle
It can be hard to notice when something is missing, particularly in an age of such abundance. But amid the internet's vast and churning piles of information, there are pieces missing from the open government puzzle.
Since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began releasing weather data in the 1970s, government and its surrounding community of technologists have increasingly demonstrated both the ability and inclination to publish information not with the attitude that it was granting the public some royal benignity, but that those data sets and knowledge should have been available from the start.
Although the volume of data published has steadily increased, only recently has it taken the shape of something substantial and publicly visible. As teams from around the world nurture their projects to maturity — with several near their mainstream debuts — the image of the future of truly open government is more full but remains hardly complete. . .