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TL;DR: In order to hold government accountable for its actions, citizens must know what those actions are, and they must insist that government act openly and transparently to the greatest extent possible.
Abstract: In order to hold government accountable for its actions, citizens must know what those actions are. To that end, they must insist that government act openly and transparently to the greatest extent possible. In the Twenty-First Century, this entails making its data available online and easy to access. If government data is made available online in useful and flexible formats, citizens will be able to utilize modern Internet tools to shed light on government activities. Such tools include mashups, which highlight hidden connections between different data sets, and crowdsourcing, which makes light work of sifting through mountains of data by focusing thousands of eyes on a particular set of data. Today, however, the state of government's online offerings is very sad indeed. Some nominally publicly available information is not online at all, and the data that is online is often not in useful formats. Government should be encouraged to release public information online in a structured, open, and searchable manner. To the extent that government does not modernize, however, we should hope that private third parties build unofficial databases and make these available in a useful form to the public.

58 citations



01 Jul 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, a strategy to sustain Korea's digital strong status in the age of Web 2.0 is proposed, which is defined as an open internet environment where users actively participate in creating and sharing information and knowledge.
Abstract: Many changes in the society and enterprises are driven by a new trend in the internet called Web 2.0. Web 2.0 can be defined as an open internet environment where users actively participate in creating and sharing information and knowledge. The Web 2.0ㆍtrends can be called 'participative web' and 'web engrained in our daily life' where businesses are providing an open space and users produce and share information and knowledge voluntarily. Impacts of the Web 2.0 reach the entire society, related industries and enterprises beyond the internet-related industries. Web 2.0 enables the small Quantity with many models. Especially, niche markets once ignored are noted again. and therefore the markets for small- and medium merchants are expanded. The current value chains have changed among internet-related industries, and brand-new industrial rules are emerging. Ways of producing information become diversified as individuals play an active role in industries of media and knowledge/publication. and the convergence between online and offline distribution channels is accelerating. IT industry has been restructured centering on the internet and digital appliances gain additional values as they are connected to the internet. Management interconnecting offline and online operations are further progressing. Companies increasingly depend upon 'Crowdsourcing', managing with ideas and technology suggested by outsiders, and they attempt to add more values by innovating the current business processes. S. Korea needs to reexamine its status of nation digitally strong in the age of Web 2.0. As speedy internet networks and services are prevalent over the globe, S. Korea may lose her strategic advantage in the area of internet rapidly. There might be a slight chance that Korea loses her competitive edge as other successful cases in other nations are noted. For this reason, S. Korea needs to develop a strategy to sustain her leadership in the age of Web 2.0. We also need a social mechanism to purify the internet without deterring the dynamics of Web. Companies need to strengthen the customer-centered management style to take advantage of consumers who actively participate in the process of operations. Companies have to implement management considering consumers' life style by not only upgrading their existing products but also reshaping their business models