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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

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Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #3: Health Care Provider Data Feed

Forum One

The District of Columbia, for example, boasts one of the highest insurance rates in the country, but two thirds of its residents rely on Medicaid and finding and getting an appointment with a doctor who takes Medicaid can seem more difficult than winning a radio contest. This data format must include: Office location.

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Loco for Local: Regional Examples of Open Government

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The event convened almost 300 passionate people, all coming together for a common goal: to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent, accountable and meaningfully accessible to the public. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people interested or involved in local open government projects.