The Open Government Partnership launch last September 20 was brave and new. Now there’s another public-facing meeting, in Brasilia on April 17-18. The basic model – encourage governments to be more transparent and use technology to empower citizens, without mandates requiring them to reach particular specific metrics – seems to be working. There are questions [...]

The cable guys in America have pretty much a monopoly when it comes to truly high-speed wired Internet access – except in areas where Verizon’s FiOS has been rolled out – but they do compete for market share when it comes to video. For must-have programming that cable subscribers want, there may not be substitutes. [...]

Great to have @digiphile talk to my class yesterday; we have some work to do on wildly creative ideas, and we’ll be doing it over the next week or so as a class. Today I have another column up online – this one for Bloomberg View is here. My first official Berkman co-directors meeting this [...]

Byrd: We’d like to see every American voter get involved. We’re seeing early adopters now. As candidates go forward we’re seeing inspiring moments. Levine: We’ve seen 2.5 million people sign petition to get the ballot lines. Byrd::  We have 30 states and we’re going after the next 20 states. We have had 1K people on [...]

Kelsey::  There is pushback, both departmentally and public servants, but we sit with people and do our best. If you can show your own colleagues the benefits, that helps. Power: One of our biggest challenges is that this is new. It’s a new set of tools in the toolkit.  Foreign service officers aren’t themselves trained [...]