An Open Transition

President-elect Obama has made a very clear commitment to changing the way government works with its citizens. To this end, we offer these three principles to guide the transition in its objective to build upon the very best of the Internet to produce the very best for government.

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  • Coalition urges Obama to adopt open transition12/02/2008 - CNET

    President-elect Barack Obama's transition team anticipated the requests of open government advocates by copyrighting Change.gov under a Creative Commons license, but a coalition of groups in favor of more online freedom is asking for more...


  • Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles 12/03/2008 - Slashdot

    The Principles for an Open Transition and a petition were co-launched by Lawrence Lessig, Mozilla, and the Participatory Culture Foundation today. This was in reaction to...


  • Liberating the transition's intellectual property12/02/2008 - Politico

    The Obama transition made a subtle, but dramatic, change to its intellectual property licensing yesterday, and the groups pushing for freer use of content on the Internet are releasing a letter this morning requesting two more changes to the way the transition is handling its online content...


  • Principles for an Open Transition12/02/2008 - Miro

    Today we launched an ‘open transition’ effort with Mozilla and Change Congress to promote open data principles for the Obama transition: take a look and join us here. The Obama team has signaled an unprecedented interest in using technology to make the process of governing more transparent...


  • Web Stakeholders Push For 'Open Transition' Principles12/02/2008 - Tech Daily Dose

    A coalition of high-tech stakeholders led by Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, Web browser creator Mozilla, and the Participatory Culture Foundation are urging President-elect Barack Obama's transition team to follow a set of "open transition principles" as they deploy resources to the Internet...


  • Principles for an Open Transition12/02/2008 - Mitchell Baker

    Openness, transparency and massive participation are extraordinary tools for problem solving. There are also important tools for citizen engagement, providing positive alternatives to alienation and conflict. Mozilla — like many open source projects — lives or dies by these same traits...


  • Change.gov Swaps Traditional Copyright for Cr...12/01/2008 - TechPresident

    In what can only be seen as a major coup for those of us who have been hoping that the Obama Administration would embrace a saner and more sensible thinking on questions of copyright than is the norm in Washington, Change.gov has swapped a strict copyright policy for among the liberalist of Creative Commons licenses...