Andrea Di MaioI am planning to do some research about the Open Government Plans published on April 7th, but I am traveling with unreliable Internet connection for the next few days. So I thought I would download all plans that I found thanks to this link via Twitter, and work on the plane or in airport lounges.
What I noticed is that federal departments and agencies have used all sorts of formats for their plans, with most but not all of them providing a PDF version. A few of them provided only an HTML version, but mostly in a single page, so that I could download them easily too.
In one case though, the plan can only be browsed but not really downloaded (or at least not with the tools and the limited time I had).
I do appreciate that a traveling analyst is not (nor should he be) the target of these plans. However I found weird that, while dealing with transparency and openness, somebody did not think about one particular spin on accessibility: are people supposed to read the plan only while they are on line?
Category: open government data Tags: open government directive
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1 Tweets that mention Not All Open Government Plans Are Open To Analysis -- Topsy.com April 8, 2010 at 2:34 am
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3 TransparencyData.com : Open Data chiama Linked Data / titticimmino.com April 9, 2010 at 3:14 am
[...] e magari senza l’opzione del download rendendo l’Open Plan poco Open all’analisi, come ha verificato Andrea Di Maio, TransparencyData fornisce i dati in output in formato Open CSV. Inoltre si ha la possibilità di [...]
4 Robbie schingler April 9, 2010 at 5:06 pm
What form would you like it in?
5 Andrea Di Maio April 10, 2010 at 10:54 am
@Robbie – anything that I could comfortably download and work on while on a plane would be great
6 Major Milestone Reached in Open Government Initiative | The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy April 12, 2010 at 12:35 pm
[...] Missing,” “Open Government Aftermath Needs Both a Carrot and a Stick,” and “Not All Government Plans Are Open to Analysis“. See also Aliya Sternstein, “Agencies’ Open Government Plans Receive Mostly [...]