Heather West
Heather West is a policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Her work focuses on a range of issues, including government transparency, e-government, and consumer privacy. Connect with her on Twitter or email heather [at] cdt [dot] org.

Flagship Initiatives Shine in Open Government Plans

Flagship Initiatives Shine in Open Government Plans

0 April 12, 2010 8:00 am

Ever since Open Government Day – the 120 day deadline in the OGD when agencies had to release Open Government Plans – I’ve been pouring over them hoping to get a better understanding of how openness is going to be implemented. If we are to judge government openness by the barrage of documents we received last Wednesday, then we open government advocates ought to be very happy! But what are these documents made of, anyway? A word cloud illustrates it quite well – all the buzzwords that you would expect: Information, government, data, open, public.