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Alex Howard

No leader or government agency genuinely interested in “radical transparency” cuts FOIA staff: kffhealthnews.org/news/article
or gags scientists & doctors, censors data, clamps down on communications, & adopts secrecy in rulemaking: thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com #OpenGov

KFF Health NewsFirings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records - KFF Health NewsThe Department of Health and Human Services’ mass firings included people who fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and FDA, which result in the release of records about government handling of infectious diseases, medical products, and safety problems in health facilities.
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

it should be obvious by now that anything created by the #techbros behind this coup needs to be considered #malware

wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s

and that includes the 2-3 years of #Palantir having free reign hacking everything related to not just #immigration but #passports

DOGE IS MORE THAN #MALWARE IT’S #RANSOMWARE

so who is putting up contingencies to use all the #OpenGOV tools we have had developed the last 20 years, to audit the White House’s acts of digital terrorism?

WIRED · DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseBy Makena Kelly
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WA Coalition for Open Gov.

Just around the corner is Sunshine Week, the annual national event that celebrates and promotes transparent government.

If you observed a school board meeting, looked up county property records or filed a freedom of information request with a federal agency, you were a beneficiary of #opengov laws.

For more info on Sunshine Week, go to: sunshineweek.org.

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OpenFisca

• @HenriVerdier will showcase the relevance of #DigitalCommons, #OpenSource and #OpenGov for digital transformation and sovereignty and how OpenFisca exemplifies those.
• Liv Nordhaug, CEO of the Digital Public Goods Alliance Secretariat, will present how the adoption of digital public goods to enable safe, inclusive, and interoperable digital public infrastructure globally is more relevant than ever, and which efforts are underway to that end.

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Ansgar Hegerfeld

Das Bonbon ist aber diese völlig absurde Regelung, damit die Bürgerinnen und Bürger auch ja nicht die Regelungen in ihrem Bundesland einfach so nachschlagen können: "Auf aktuelle Ausgaben des Staatsanzeigers für das Land Hessen können zunächst nur Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten zugreifen. Zehn Tage nach dem Erscheinen des Amtsblatts wird jedoch eine Leseversion freigegeben, und nach sechs Monaten stehen die Funktionen Drucken und Speichern zur Verfügung."

Wie großzügig, nach 6 Monaten darf ich als Bürger ein Dokument mit rechtlichen Regelungen für mich nicht nur angucken, sondern sogar drucken und speichern! Willkommen im Jahr 2025.

Quelle: verwaltungsportal.hessen.de/in

verwaltungsportal.hessen.deStaatsanzeigerAmtsblatt
#Hessen#digitalisierung#OpenGov
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Matti Schneider

Post-#RightsCon25 event with @au: “in #Taiwan, all the candidates running for mayor that had an #OpenGov / collaborative governance platform were elected, and those who did not were not elected”.
“Young people, who don't have age to vote nor resources to impact their community, feel a lack of agency and that makes them fall victim to technology like #TikTok. We are thus changing the education system to bring more agency.”
#RightsCon

Audrey Tang holding a microphone sitting on a sofa, with participants seating on yoga mats around
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Alex Howard

The General Service Administration relaunched a GSA.gov/open website that documents #OpenGov policies, programs, & platforms the agency stewards for all Americans, including like Challenge.gov, Data.gov, CitizenScience.gov, Performance.gov and Regulations.gov. (USASpending.gov is a Treasury site.)

U.S. General Services AdministrationOpen GSAGSA initiatives to meet the Presidential Executive Order making the Federal government more open, transparent and collaborative.
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JoshData 🐢

So my calendar recently "freed up" this Friday, February 7 at 1pm Eastern. Seems like a great time to maybe have an impromptu chat with others the #opengov world about how things are going.

Are you free? Please feel free to share with the wider #opengov community. Would love to catch up with anyone I haven't seen in a while (which is most everyone); would love to meet people in the community I haven't met yet.

RSVP: forms.gle/XVoiLy2SFfjXLBwx7

Google DocsFree for an Open Government chat?Hi colleagues in the open government world. My calendar recently "freed up" this Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1pm Eastern. I thought it would be a great time to get folks together from the wider open government community for an impromptu chat on Zoom on open government issues in the United States. Hope to see you. Joshua Tauberer (GovTrack.us) tauberer@govtrack.us
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Josh Wells

Question for #opengov #govtech #civictech people: What is the articulation you or others have seen in the quasi-legal DOGE structure supposedly now embedded or taking over the United States Digital Service, as recorded through these explanations at Wikipedia, and defined in the POTUS Executive Order linked from Wikipedia:

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departme

2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S (was USDS)

The USDS original web page at USDS.gov seemingly has no reference to "DOGE" material, furthermore it has the little verification dropdown which reads "An official website of the United States government. Here’s how you know" just like other *.gov domains like USGS.gov and USDA.gov etc. It looks like a normal government web page.

But there is also a DOGE.gov website with a very differently stylized "official website" line at the top and with zero information about what the department is, just a splash page. Frankly it looks suspicious, as if some federal IT people are refusing to work on it.

Both domains USDS.gov and DOGE.gov show as registered United States government domains with the same government contact information through an iana.org WHOIS.

I am teaching a class on open government practices next week and this sure is a piece of work to untangle. I'm frankly at a loss of what to explain here about functions at the federal level. Any help would be very appreciated. Personal DMs fine if you like.

cc @digiphile @allafarce @danielschuman @danhon @pahlkadot @edmullen @eff

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