Will Pate's Blog » Transparency http://www.willpate.org Peek into a mind of boundless curiosity Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Joining the Board of Visible Government http://www.willpate.org/2009/02/17/joining-the-board-of-visible-government/ http://www.willpate.org/2009/02/17/joining-the-board-of-visible-government/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:00:02 +0000 willpate http://www.willpate.org/?p=239 I’m very pleased to announce my first board position with Visible Government, a non-partisan non-profit dedicated to promoting the planning, funding, and implementation of online tools for government transparency in Canada. I’m truly humbled to be among such fine company in the other directors and advisors. For my American friends, the closest equivalent would be the Sunlight Foundation.

The Need for Transparency

Everywhere I go, regular folks have lost a lot of trust in the public and private institutions alike. Resources are becoming scarcer, governments are undertaking significant and complex spending to stimulate their economies, and unprecedented corporate malfeasance has shaken their faith in the people who run the show. Barack Obama has made transparency a touchstone of his administration, and all Canadians should expect the same from their public institutions. Transparency and accountability will be key to maintaining Canada’s membership in the leading nations of the 21st century.

A Call to Colleagues

I’ve been asked to help build a council to assess external technology that Visible Government should use to help drive transparency. If you have experience in technology transfer, commercialization, product and company launching or technology in government – let me know. We have about a dozen projects that need review, and we would like to set a formal process to help that scale.

What’s Next

We’re working on the following, if you would like to help:

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