fyi: invitation to the Legislative Data and Transparency Conference in Washington, DC Feb. 2nd
citizencontact
forwarding this the open house project. hope you can all attend.
Daniel Bennett
CTO, eCitizen Foundation
dan...@citizencontact.com
202-651-1964 mobile and SMS
January 19, 2012
The Committee on House Administration would like to invite you to attend the Legislative Data and Transparency Conference on February 2, 2012, in the Cannon Caucus Room, 345 Cannon HOB.
The Legislative Data and Transparency Conference brings together Legislative Branch agencies with data users and transparency advocates to discuss the use and future of legislative data. The conference will address how agencies manage the creation and availability of legislative data and how to further improve the process.
Legislative Data and Transparency Conference The Cannon Caucus Room, 345 Cannon HOB February 2, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
To register, please click here.
If you have any questions, please contact the Committee on House Administration via phone at 202-225-8281 or via email at legdatac...@mail.house.gov. |
Daniel Schuman
House of Reps Sets Conference on Public Access to Legislative Info on Feb 2
Today, the House of Representatives announced it will host a full-day conference on public access to legislative information on Thursday, February 2. This is a big deal. It will bring together the people who create and encode legislative materials and the people that use (and transform) that information. This announcement follows-on last week's launch of a House transparency portal, which in of itself will change how the public makes use of legislative information.
Entitled "Legislative Data and Transparency," the conference will include discussion of how legislative information is created, how it is made available to the public, what the impact is of current levels of public access, what improved public access would look like from a technological perspective, and the benchmarks to determine and benefits that would come from a truly transparency Congress.
In May 2007, the Sunlight Foundation gathered a coalition of organizations to make recommendations on what an open House of Representatives should look like. While some of the recommendations have been implemented, five years on there's still a lot to do. Deepening communication between those on the "inside" and "outside" will only help to make Congress a more responsive, efficient, and transparent institution.
This conference has been a long time in the making, and I congratulate the often unsung congressional staff who have labored long hours to make it happen, as well as the political leaders who have demonstrated the determination to make this happen. I also must disclose that I've provided advice about what I think the conference should look like.
I hope this serves as a kick-off to many more discussion between those inside and outside Congress about how to fully bring it into the Internet age. RSVP here.
Daniel
Daniel Schuman
Director | Advisory Committee on Transparency
Policy Counsel | The Sunlight Foundation
o: 202-742-1520 x 273 | c: 202-713-5795 | @danielschuman
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