And Data for All from Wired Online Rights .rss feed.

This has quite a bit to do with my thesis about intellectual property and craftwork. Imagine: A new surplus of government data that can be put to use building, programming, planning, writing, critiquing, exploring, and developing a new generation of useful tools, reliable plans, social and political experiments, and so on. Kundra has the right idea and, if it continues in this direction, has my backing.

Hopefully Kundra's model of transparency infiltrates the rest of the Obama Administration now that they have assumed some of the most frustrating and destructive informational policies inherited from Bush II.