Agree absolutely that we should work to " restore freedom of information to its rightful place as on a par with other critical rights in a democratic society. " The practical idea of putting all documents, once released, on line is a great one. Proof of concept there would be Document Cloud, now 15 years old, created by Scott Klein and Eric Umansky from ProPublica and Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times and funded by Knight Foundation. Once journalists get them, they put the documents on line. But I like the idea if the government doing it. Feels like a step in the right direction. Even better would be a 21st Century reorganization that requires almost all public information to be online the second it enters a government computer. Given where we are now, that may take a while.
Agree absolutely that we should work to " restore freedom of information to its rightful place as on a par with other critical rights in a democratic society. " The practical idea of putting all documents, once released, on line is a great one. Proof of concept there would be Document Cloud, now 15 years old, created by Scott Klein and Eric Umansky from ProPublica and Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times and funded by Knight Foundation. Once journalists get them, they put the documents on line. But I like the idea if the government doing it. Feels like a step in the right direction. Even better would be a 21st Century reorganization that requires almost all public information to be online the second it enters a government computer. Given where we are now, that may take a while.