Todd La Porte, Being Good and Doing Well: Organizational Openness and Government Effectiveness on the World Wide Web, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, February/March 2005. Excerpt: 'For several years advocates have argued that digital systems in public organizations have considerable promise to improve a wide range of government functions, both in the developed and in the developing worlds. Many countries are grappling with how best to realize that promise....After nearly a decade of use of the Web in governments around the world, we believe we have sufficient data to evaluate these systems' impact on government effectiveness and their contribution to increased public participation....[I]mprovement in effectiveness is caused by more openness in Web operations, but not the reverse.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/16/2005 09:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
