Todd Park Quotes

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

Corruption reflects the power distance between civil servants and the public, particularly for citizens in remote areas.

Access to government-held information allows citizens to hold their government accountable for policy decisions and public expenditures…. Access to information bridges the gap between state and society ….

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.