This is what I understand Open Data and transparency to be about:
Unfortunately for Ms. Warren, the other side was more interested in
protecting themselves. It is kinda like crime going down in Canada
and the move of the current government to build more prinsons and
incarcerate more youth. The numbers and the social science are with
us but the politics are not.
The Travails of Ms. Warren - US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/opinion/23nocera.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212Sunlight Foundation
http://sunlightfoundation.com/OpenSecrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
"Every epoch dreams the one that follows it' as the dream form of the
future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)