Government Data and the Invisible Hand
Government Data and the Invisible Hand
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政府数据和看不见的手
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2009
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E. Felten
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D. G. Robinson;Harlan Yu;W. Zeller;E. Felten
如果下一届总统政府真的想要利用互联网带来的政府透明度的潜力，它应该遵循一个反直觉但最终令人信服的策略：减少联邦政府在向公民提供重要政府信息方面的作用。如今，政府机构认为他们自己的网站比开放数据供他人使用的技术基础设施更重要。我们认为这种理解是错误的。政府最好能理解提供可重复使用的数据，而不是提供网站，作为其在线发布责任的核心。与其像目前那样努力设计满足每个终端用户需求的站点，我们认为行政部门应该专注于创建一个简单、可靠和可公开访问的基础设施，以公开底层数据。私人行为体，无论是非营利还是商业，都更适合向公民提供政府信息，并且可以不断创造和重塑个人用于查找和利用公共数据的工具。确保政府允许私人团体在提供政府数据方面平等竞争的最好方法是要求联邦网站本身使用与向公众开放的相同的开放系统来访问底层数据。
If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately compelling strategy: reduce the federal role in presenting important government information to citizens. Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility. Rather than struggling, as it currently does, to design sites that meet each end-user need, we argue that the executive branch should focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure that exposes the underlying data. Private actors, either nonprofit or commercial, are better suited to deliver government information to citizens and can constantly create and reshape the tools individuals use to find and leverage public data. The best way to ensure that the government allows private parties to compete on equal terms in the provision of government data is to require that federal websites themselves use the same open systems for accessing the underlying data as they make available to the public at large.