Three Phases of Open Government Progress: Who is acting and each stage? What are they doing?

Beth Noveck talks about there being three stages of this open government movement (check out here Ted talk in a blog post below).

We are already in and towards the end of the first stage, which is open data.

The next two phases she predicts are defined as firstly, getting great at delivering information to the centre, bringing information and expertise into government to help improve policy and activity. She uses the example of the patent office (see Wiki Government for more information on this).

E-petitions might fit into phase two as it is getting citizen demands more readily known by government – therefore getting more information in.

 The third phase is getting decision making power out. Noveck uses examples from the Russian and Lithuanian government in having their citizens participate in the creation of laws. She also references the B.C. government on govTogetherBC.

I would also suggest that examples like the government putting a prize out to the private sector to dock at the International Space Station is an early example of phase three.

 I’ve marked guesses as to where we are on each of these phases (as waves in the image below). To fully understand this we need to know who is pushing forward each of these waves/phases, what role they are playing, and progress on each phase/wave. Let’s try and make this blog a bit participatory, who do you know that is acting within each of these stages and what are they doing?