Alejandro@Oxford

For some time, my interests have turning towards the direction of public transparency and collaborative government. I started my PhD at Oxford with the intention of writing a thesis on foreign policy and the Internet (!), and now I find myself absorbed by four things: freedom of information, open data, open government (the three legs of transparency) and collaborative government. My thesis is turning towards a political theory dissertation on the role of granular diversity in democracy (more soon, or so I hope). And now I am putting words to actions by starting up a project of transparency in Catalunya. My ambition is to build up platforms of transparency in Catalunya, Spain and European Union with the three transparency legs I’ve mentioned: freedom of information, open data and open government, which in time will allow for the formation of collaborative government or wiki-government, in other words “government with the people.” (I recommend you to read Beth Noveck’s Wiki Government (Amazon link on the side)). In future posts I intend to develop each of those legs, and what I mean by collaborative government and the jump from transparency to collaboration.