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From the Ted Talk by Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government

Unscramble the Blue Letters

We live in a Cambrian era of big data, of social networks, and we have this opportunity to redesign these institutions that are actually quite recent. Think about it: What other business do you know, what other sector of the economy, and especially one as big as the public scoter, that doesn't seek to reinvent its bunssies model on a regular biass? Sure, we invest plenty in innovation. We invest in bodabrand and science education and science grants, but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning the isnoiiutntts that we have.

Open Cloze

We live in a Cambrian era of big data, of social networks, and we have this opportunity to redesign these institutions that are actually quite recent. Think about it: What other business do you know, what other sector of the economy, and especially one as big as the public ______, that doesn't seek to reinvent its ________ model on a regular _____? Sure, we invest plenty in innovation. We invest in _________ and science education and science grants, but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning the ____________ that we have.

Solution

  1. sector
  2. business
  3. basis
  4. institutions
  5. broadband

Original Text

We live in a Cambrian era of big data, of social networks, and we have this opportunity to redesign these institutions that are actually quite recent. Think about it: What other business do you know, what other sector of the economy, and especially one as big as the public sector, that doesn't seek to reinvent its business model on a regular basis? Sure, we invest plenty in innovation. We invest in broadband and science education and science grants, but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning the institutions that we have.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
open government 11
government revolution 4
white house 3
social media 2
public sector 2
hard work 2
patent office 2
young people 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
open government revolution 4

Important Words

  1. basis
  2. big
  3. broadband
  4. business
  5. cambrian
  6. data
  7. economy
  8. education
  9. era
  10. grants
  11. innovation
  12. institutions
  13. invest
  14. live
  15. model
  16. networks
  17. opportunity
  18. plenty
  19. public
  20. redesign
  21. redesigning
  22. regular
  23. reinvent
  24. reinventing
  25. science
  26. sector
  27. seek
  28. social