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This essay first appeared as chapter 1 in Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma, eds. (2010), Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice,” O'Reilly Media. We have published it in Innovations, with permission from the author, under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license.
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