From the Ted Talk by Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government
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We're going to see this evolution really in two phases, I think. The first phase of the open government revolution is delivering better iaimrotfonn from the crowd into the cetner. Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got sttread, I was teaching a patent law class to my snuttdes and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the peowr to make a diceiosn about which pnatet application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 yares the rights over an entire field of inventive activity. Well, what did we do? We said, we can make a website, we can make an expert network, a social network, that would connect the network to the institution to allow scientists and technologists to get better information to the patent office to aid in making those dsicioens. We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report that the United States Patent Office will be rolinlg out universal, complete, and total openness, so that all patent applications will now be open for citizen participation, beginning this year.
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We're going to see this evolution really in two phases, I think. The first phase of the open government revolution is delivering better ___________ from the crowd into the ______. Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got _______, I was teaching a patent law class to my ________ and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the _____ to make a ________ about which ______ application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 _____ the rights over an entire field of inventive activity. Well, what did we do? We said, we can make a website, we can make an expert network, a social network, that would connect the network to the institution to allow scientists and technologists to get better information to the patent office to aid in making those _________. We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report that the United States Patent Office will be _______ out universal, complete, and total openness, so that all patent applications will now be open for citizen participation, beginning this year.
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We're going to see this evolution really in two phases, I think. The first phase of the open government revolution is delivering better information from the crowd into the center. Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got started, I was teaching a patent law class to my students and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make a decision about which patent application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights over an entire field of inventive activity. Well, what did we do? We said, we can make a website, we can make an expert network, a social network, that would connect the network to the institution to allow scientists and technologists to get better information to the patent office to aid in making those decisions. We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report that the United States Patent Office will be rolling out universal, complete, and total openness, so that all patent applications will now be open for citizen participation, beginning this year.