I’ll do my best to be at TransparencyCamp West next weekend, August 8-9 in Mountain View, CA. From their site, here’s what it’s all about:
This un-conference is about convening a trans-partisan tribe of open government advocates from all walks — government representatives, technologists, developers, NGOs, wonks and activists — to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent and meaningfully accessible to the public.
The event is organized by Sunlight Foundation. The first TransparencyCamp took place in DC earlier this year. Though the main focus is on — you guessed it — transparency, a number of sessions looked at participation and other neighboring topics as well (which makes sense, in my view, given the overlap).
The hashtag is #tcamp09 in case you want to follow the event on Twitter.
It’s important to get government insiders and practitioners from all levels to participate in events like these. So if you know people who work in government (including yourself), please by all means send them along.
TransparencyCamp is an unconference, meaning the agenda will be created by the participants the day of the event. I have a couple of session ideas:
- Something at the intersection of transparency and participation (e.g. take a look at how the two are inter-related, how they can benefit from each other etc.)
- Open Government Initiative (OGI) review and feedback round (what worked, what could be improved next time around etc.)
Please leave a comment if you’re interested in co-presenting. Thanks!
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