The rhetoric of Open Government
One of the things I’m looking at in my thesis is the Open Government movement & data culture, and I’m using some examples of published rhetoric to make sense of the field. As a member of the movement, the passages I come across generally seem straightforward, but this one stood out:
“Whenever we confront a problem, we have to ask ourselves: How do I parse and distribute the problem? How might we build feedback loops that incorporate more people?” (Harvey Anderson quoted in Noveck, Beth: Wiki Government, p. 32-3)
Yipes! It’s a deadly combination of political science loaded with managerial computer science jargon — parse, distribute, feedback loops. Perfectly intelligible to an insider, but not necessarily the best way to communicate a problem-solving method.
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