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‘It is simply unacceptable at this point in history that a citizen can use Web services to track the movies he is renting, the weather around his house, and the books he’s recently purchased but cannot as easily monitor data regarding the quality of his drinking water, legislation, or regulations that will directly impact his work or personal life, what contracts are currently available to bid on for his state, or what crimes have recently occurred on his street.’

--Jim Willis, Director of eGovernment, the State of Rhode Island, from ‘Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything’

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The Democratization of Data: Supporting Transparency & Openness Initiatives within State & Local Governments

Transparency, Participation and Collaboration all support President Obama’s original January 21, 2009 Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. But without a fast, easy and secure way to surface data, citizens continue to struggle with a government that overspends and underreports.

In order to support the President’s memorandum for transparency and openness, every agency needs to identify and embrace effective solutions that enable citizens with greater insight into how the government allocates funding for government programs and initiatives.

A Secure, Scalable Approach to Transparency and Openness

While the Open Government Initiative offers many benefits, it starts with government investing in technology solutions that can be assembled quickly for all citizens to leverage in support of government accountability efforts. With technology solutions that enable the ability to ‘mash’ authoritative systems and quickly create their own results, citizens are able to create the context and relevancy they need to take part in our nation’s economic future.

Today’s state government agencies require interactive solutions that allow citizens to track state spending, review revenue and expenses by fiscal year, view state budgets and adjust spending levels by buckets. Enabling agencies with just-in-time information that is quickly assembled, presented and disturbed to citizens, makes government more open, honest and accountable.

State and local agencies that have embraced the ‘democratization of data’ have seen many benefits from their efforts including:

• Credibility — better public access to government information means a better understanding and appreciation for government initiatives
• Productivity — citizens can ‘self-serve’ their information needs, freeing agency officials to focus on other important government initiatives
• Participation — growing volumes of contextual insight support greater participation by citizens

Transparency solutions are currently being developed and used by agencies as diverse as Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the California Health Care Foundation and the City of Seattle. But results aren’t limited to just these forward thinking agencies, every state and local government can leverage JackBe’s Government-Ready Transparency Solution.

JackBe: A Government-Ready Transparency Solution

JackBe's Real-Time Operational Intelligence Platform, Presto, is supporting transparency reporting efforts within government agencies of every size. JackBe's extensive government client list includes the Department of Commerce, Defense Information Agency (DIA), US Airforce, US Army, Army National Guard, and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), as well as many government contractors.

JackBe's Transparency 2.0 Solution is a cost-effective package of Presto; a secure, collaborative solution that quickly exposes data of your choice, according to your security requirements, to destinations you choose including websites, portals, data feeds, dashboards, and spreadsheets. Learn more about Presto here.

Allow your employees and citizens to safely use your data and gain insights with JackBe's Transparency 2.0 Solution. Contact our Transparency 2.0 Solution Team for a formal demonstration for your agency.