Subject: Wiki Government Request and MacArthur
From: Beth Noveck <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:06:56 -0500

Dear John,

Sonal and I are following up about the MacArthur monies and setting up  
the iLabs through CAP. Now that I'm "on the ground" at OSTP and  
setting up the Open Government Office to implement the President's  
Directive on Transparency and Open Government, I am keenly aware of  
how urgently we need to create an agile tech swat team to start  
building prototypes of new websites, tools, and processes that will  
demonstrate effectiveness.  I will keep you posted on the progress of  
that grant.

Today I am writing to you in my personal capacity as a professor and  
author of the forthcoming book, Wiki Government: How Technology Can  
Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More  
Powerful, that will appear soon with the Brookings Institution Press.   
I would be honored and grateful if you would consider doing a blurb  
for the jacket.

Wiki Government looks at how collaboration enabled by technology can  
lead to better decision making in government.  I focus on explaining  
how Peer-to-Patent worked--the law, policy, and design--and how to  
apply the lessons as a model for enabling collaborative governance  
across the policy spectrum. It expands on many of the ideas about open  
government that I brought to the campaign and the transition and which  
you championed. I have attached a copy of the original page proofs as  
well as the catalogue copy from last fall. I have also asked Brookings  
to send you a bound copy.

Many thanks for your consideration,

All the best,

Beth Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck
Professor of Law, New York Law School (on leave 2009-10)
McClatchy Visiting Assoc. Prof. of Communication, Stanford University  
(on leave 2009-10)
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w: http://dotank.nyls.edu/
b: http://cairns.typepad.com

*Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy  
Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings Institution Press,  
forthcoming 2009)

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