A vision for Open Government, Worldwide Collaboration

Manifesto

Throughout my career it became increasingly clear that open communication, honest dialog, is a key component for success for all individuals, organizations, and governments.
That's a true manifesto. But what I really like about the GovintheLab story is this: that it applies to itself the principles of its own agenda or, as some would say, it eats its own dogfood.

I myself became a contributor of GovintheLab way before Edgeryders. Somebody showed me a tweet saying “we look from bloggers from all over the world”. The doors appeared, and were, wide open. You, John, have been super transparent from the start: when we did have some hiccups, you honestly acknowledged and corrected them. In a sense, you were very consistent with Vinay’s “power of networks” point (in fact, I suggest John heads there and validates it against his own experience).

There is a great strength in being coherent with your own principles. It just saves a lot of time, attracting well-meaning people and keeping the trolls at bay.