Open Government Links of the Week – August 5, 2011

Several important things happened in the world of open government and technology this week. Let me know which articles should be added to the list by commenting below!

• The U.S. has a new Chief Information Officer. Alex Howard has this write-up about it and here’s Nick Judd’ post on it.

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• The 2011 FOCAS, Networks and Citizenship, took place in Aspen, Colorado this week. There’s archived video online from it (along with more information) accessible through Alex Howard’s post.

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• Here’s an article on “How Governments Are Developing Better Performance Metrics“.

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• The Sunlight Foundation now has a 3rd post in a series entitled, “Congress Online”. This time the focus is on Congressional media.

A similar version of this was originally posted at the IT company that I work for’s product blog (Disclosure: the product deals w/ transparency, gov’t, & technology and our company works with government in multiple ways to help them with gov 2.0 and related technologies)