Comments on: Contextual clothing for naked transparency

By: prefabrik ev

prefabrik ev — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:05:30 +0000

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[...]Contextual clothing for naked transparency « Jon Udell[...]…

By: Naked Transparency Meets Freakonomics « Unconventional Wisdom

Naked Transparency Meets Freakonomics « Unconventional Wisdom — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:05:07 +0000

[...] I followed a link that I saw tweeted by Chris Brogan to a blog post written by Jon Udell titled Contextual clothing for naked transparency. The blog post was in turn inspired by an interview with Lawrence Lessig that Udell heard on the [...]

By: Psybertron Asks

Psybertron Asks — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:30:14 +0000

[...] Post from John Udell on an interview with Larry Lessig about his New Republic essay Against Transparency. John says … We don’t really want naked transparency, we want transparency clothed in context. The Net can be an engine for context assembly, a wonderful phrase I picked up years ago from Jack Ozzie and echoed in several essays. But it can also be a context destroyer. [...]

By: Ken Craggs

Ken Craggs — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:35:35 +0000

Gov 2.0 and Open Government
http://topichub.net/gov20

The world government global database
http://kencraggs.livejournal.com/

Follow updated re: ‘Semantic web’ and ‘Internet of Things’
http://twitter.com/BetweenMyths

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:42:56 +0000

I would say that both governments and citizens can learn to appreciate the principles that make public information systems most accessible and most useful.

And both can demand, acquire, and use systems that honor those principles.

By: Greg Martin

Greg Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:20:10 +0000

Jon, What do you think it will take for local governments to have the time & resources to develop the expertise needed to drive what you are suggesting?

By: Choosing Your Audiences | Ian M Rountree

Choosing Your Audiences | Ian M Rountree — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:09:39 +0000

[...] use to do so. This isn’t just about context, though it could well be – Jon Udell has a concise way of summing up the need for context – but tone, manner. Digital body language at its [...]

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:41 +0000

We find that no matter how important an issue is with a particular group of people, there is another larger group that has no interest in it whatsoever.

Except when some in that larger group do have an interest, but don’t know that they do.

Here’s something that came up in a recent city council meeting:

“The city hereby adopts the provisions of RSA 72:62 (Solar); RSA 72:66 (Wind); and RSA 72:70 (Wood).”

In principle, the laudable transparency that brings this bit of council business to light helps publicize a new set of “green” tax exemptions.

In practice that won’t happen until the context surrounding, say, RSA 72:70 — which I happen to know involves a piece of state legislation and some new technologies — is more readily discoverable.

We can lower the barrier to such discovery by applying basic web 101 principles such as linking, syndication, annotation.

Likewise and even more importantly, better context surrounding the processes that underlie policy change will help those who should engage actually do so.

By: Greg Martin

Greg Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:43:52 +0000

Jon, In our church constitution, we ask the leaders to act with ‘responsible transparency’. Understanding that not all issues may be worked out in public (personnel issues, say) and that some forums are better than others for discussing issues with members (a smaller meeting of interested parties rather than a large gathering, perhaps). We find that no matter how important an issue is with a particular group of people, there is another larger group that has no interest in it whatsoever.

By: stufforama

stufforama — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:18:43 +0000

I guess it proves at least to me that ‘context’ is probably the most important word in the lexicon.
Tony