Episode Synopsis "Is Transparency Critical?"

On President Obama\'s first day in office, he signed a memorandum on Open Government, committing all the departments and agencies to \\\"transparency, participation, and collaboration.\\\" The result was www.data.gov, which went public in May 2009 and quickly had 64 million hits. When the White House makes government information public, who notices and why do we care?

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