Open Government Technology and Law
A special issue of Laws (ISSN 2075-471X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2015) | Viewed by 4402
Special Issue Editor
2. Faculty Development, Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, NC 27401, USA
3. Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA 94305-8610, USA
Interests: trade secrecy and secrecy generally; Information systems; the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life, specifically information flows in the lawmaking and regulatory process and intellectual property law’s impact on public and private secrecy, transparency and accountability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Open government momentum is creating opportunities to transform and modernize democracy’s information management systems. Globally, nationally, and locally, technology paired with transparency (and the need for secrecy and security) is changing the organization and location of information that flows in and out of governing systems. However, opening data and engaging with it are distinctly different functions. The long-term social, political, and policy impact of this new information-processing power remains unclear. Now is the time for citizens and entrepreneurial leaders to innovate on behalf of effective, efficient self-governance.
Executive offices of government usually take the initiative on transparency. However, legislatures are beginning to catch up. Among other efforts, they are attempting to create systems to make it easier to access and track bills, resolutions, calendars, hearing records, committee reports, roll call votes, rules and procedures, public laws, open meetings, and other activities. In addition to enabling government services, information and communication technologies serve an important role in administration and oversight, including scheduling, facilitating public access to the print and online public records, tracking office inventories, and managing information received from executive agencies.
This Special Issue seeks articles that focus on any law, policy, regulatory or theoretical aspect of the challenges of open government technology today. What should be the functionalities of transparency technologies? What questions of law or policy need to be considered? How has cyberlaw and policy developed to address these issues? Does intellectual property law represent a framework for open access technology and models? What limitations exist within these technologies? Are such technologies helpful or harmful to the operations of government? These and other questions can be addressed through this call for papers.
Please feel free to forward this call for papers to anyone who might be interested in submitting a paper.
Prof. David S. Levine
Guest Editor
References:
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Jeremy M. Goldberg. “Riding the Second Wave of Civic Innovation.” Governing, August 28, 2014.
Stephen Goldsmith, and Susan Crawford. The Responsive City: Engaging Communities through Data-Smart Governance, 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014.
Jessica Mulholland, and Noelle Knell. “Chief Innovation Officers in State and Local Government (Interactive Map).” Government Technology, March 28, 2014.
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Mayur Patel, Jon Sotsky, Sean Gourley, and Daniel Houghton. “Knight Foundation Report on Civic Technology.” Presentation. Knight Foundation, December 2013.
Anthony M. Townsend. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Alissa Black, and Rachel Burstein. “A Guide for Making Innovation Offices Work.” IBM Center for the Business of Government, October 2014.
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Keywords
- open government;
- government technology;
- information policy;
- information diffusion;
- speech;
- transparency;
- secrecy;
- intellectual property;
- applications;
- decision-making
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