Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism

Published: March 18, 2010, midnight

b'Linda Fantin and Ellen Miller, with moderator Chris Csikszentmihalyi.\\n\\nIn December, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement \\u201cprinciples of transparency, participation, and collaboration,\\u201d including deadlines for providing government information online. At the same time, citizens and journalists are developing new technologies to manage and analyze the exponential increase in data about our civic lives available from governmental and other sources. What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from this nexus of government openness and digital connectedness?'