{"id":69785,"date":"2009-12-07T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091207\/1412137237.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-07T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:32:00","slug":"irony-federal-government-workshop-on-openness-closed-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/69785","title":{"rendered":"Irony: Federal Government Workshop On Openness&#8230; Closed To The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration still has a very mixed record on transparency and openness.  Despite promising to be a lot more transparent and open, the federal government has been <i>extremely<\/i> selective in where it actually is open.  So, yes, it&#8217;s done a decent job with some online projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/Pages\/home.aspx\" >Recovery.gov<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/it.usaspending.gov\/\" >USASpending.gov<\/a>, but in other areas, such as on ACTA negotiations the government has resisted openness at pretty much every turn.  So, while perhaps it&#8217;s understandable, it does seem rather ironic that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091206\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_obama_open_government\" >the federal government&#8217;s workshop on openness is closed to the public<\/a>.  Yes, it&#8217;s an internal workshop for federal government employees, but it certainly seems to be a symbolic point that openness is something that&#8217;s talked about more often than done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091207\/1412137237.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091207\/1412137237.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091207\/1412137237&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4e0244b0073472904423a1f0f854b6b8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4e0244b0073472904423a1f0f854b6b8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=hiAyPnvpdS8:0j1D0LZl5dg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=hiAyPnvpdS8:0j1D0LZl5dg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=hiAyPnvpdS8:0j1D0LZl5dg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/hiAyPnvpdS8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration still has a very mixed record on transparency and openness. Despite promising to be a lot more transparent and open, the federal government has been extremely selective in where it actually is open. So, yes, it&#8217;s done a decent job with some online projects like Recovery.gov and USASpending.gov, but in other areas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}