Four big thinkers from Princeton University have written a paper called “Government Data and the Invisible Hand” that suggests: “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.”
The authors go on to say: “Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use.”
The final version of the paper is set to be published in the fall edition of Yale Journal of Law & Technology.
