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Open Government

Research Note: Is Your Government Open or Closed? October 2011 20 While the majority of public sentiment has been neutral, an undercurrent of negative public sentiment does exist surrounding recent events. Negative sentiment has outnumbered positive by a factor of 3:1 giving rise to concerns over the future of open government as originally envisioned. Figure 10 - Public Sentiment on Open Government (July-Oct 2011) The uncertainty of expectations with Government 2.0 is discernible through the recent conversations surrounding the loss of tech experts for the U.S. when in mid-2011 the core group of technology advocates left the White House, raising questions about what would become of the Obama administration‟s technology-focused goals. Other such concerns for the potential of government 2.0 has also been expressed in the UK where the government has opened up significant amounts of data, APIs are being released everyday and developers are “reaching information overload” as one digital strategy expert stated, “It‟s all very well having developers working away with this data, but if government is not ready for it, it‟s a waste of time.” 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 7/26/2011 7/29/2011 8/1/2011 8/4/2011 8/7/2011 8/10/2011 8/13/2011 8/16/2011 8/19/2011 8/22/2011 8/25/2011 8/28/2011 8/31/2011 9/3/2011 9/6/2011 9/9/2011 9/12/2011 9/15/2011 9/18/2011 9/21/2011 9/24/2011 9/27/2011 9/30/2011 10/3/2011 10/6/2011 10/9/2011 10/12/2011 10/15/2011 10/18/2011 10/21/2011 10/24/2011 Negative Positive Neutral; 21813; 96% Negative; 773; 3% Positive; 217; 1% Neutral Negative Positive