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But we want our government scientists to talk to the media, talk to the public.
Kensington was a community in crisis before this for reasons that are endemic and intertwined, and anyone familiar with the neighborhood can think of why: racial disparities, failure of local and federal government to properly fund schools, lack of economic opportunity.
Suddenly, we're seeing actions on the ground from local government.
The government and the opposition, they have been simply paralyzed.
So the government decided to have the elections once again.
On one level nobody's questioning that democracy is the best form of government.
And nevertheless that many people on the left try to hate it, the truth is that it was very much the market revolution that sent the message: "The government does not know better."
There were occasional presidents of little colonial councils and bits of government, but it was really a nothing title.
And I was growing up in school and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
As a young middle-class Nigerian activist, I launched myself along with a whole generation of us into the campaign to stop the government.
And I asked millions of people, without questioning my right to do so, to go up against the government.
And when I think about that, first of all I think that government is a social contract between the people and the government, and if the government isn't transparent, then the people aren't going to be transparent either, but also that we're blaming the little guy who doesn't pay his taxes, and we're not recognizing that everyone's fudging things all over the world, including some extremely respected businesses, and I'll give you one example.
I came in to become the head of Open Government, to take the values and the practices of transparency, participation and collaboration, and instill them into the way that we work, to open up government, to work with people.
We wanted, naturally, to ask public sector employees how we should open up government.
Governments exist to channel the flow of two things, really, values and expertise to and from government and to and from citizens to the end of making decisions.
The same can be said for our social systems, for our systems of government, where, at the very least, flow offers us a helpful metaphor for understanding what the problem is, what's really broken, and the urgent need that we have, that we all feel today, to redesign the flow of our institutions.
Now, it's very easy to complain, of course, about partisan politics and entrenched bureaucracy, and we love to complain about government.
They cannot replace government.
Powerful, practical, palpable model for handing power from government to citizens.
Some of it's very high-tech, and some of it is extremely low-tech, such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan, India, where they take the spending data of the state and paint it on 100,000 village walls, and then invite the villagers to come and comment who is on the government payroll, who's actually died, what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere, and to work together through civic engagement to save real money and participate and have access to that budget.
But it's not just about policing government.
It's also about creating government.
And the Red Cross too is training volunteers and Twitter is certifying them, not simply to supplement existing government institutions, but in many cases, to replace them.
Now what we're seeing lots of examples of, obviously, is the opening up of government data, not enough examples of this yet, but we're starting to see this practice of people creating and generating innovative applications on top of government data.
And I want to be clear to mention that this open government revolution is not about privatizing government, because in many cases what it can do when we have the will to do so is to deliver more progressive and better policy than the regulations and the legislative and litigation-oriented strategies by which we make policy today.
That is a nice sideline of open government.
Sberbank, the largest and oldest bank in Russia, largely owned by the Russian government, has started practicing crowdsourcing, engaging its employees and citizens in the public in developing innovations.
And we see lots of examples of these innovators using open government data, not simply to make apps, but then to make companies and to hire people to build them working with the government.
Let me be very clear, and perhaps controversial, that open government is not about transparent government.
Simply throwing data over the transom doesn't change how government works.
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