Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency
A free, one-day conference on May 15, 2009
LBJ Presidential Library and Museum

Co-sponsored by the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas

Speakers:

• The Hon. former Senator Bill Bradley
• White House CIO Vivek Kundra
• Texas Comptroller Susan Combs
• LBJ School's Gary Chapman
• The Hon. State Senator Kirk Watson
• The Hon. State Representative Mark Strama
• The Hon. former State Representative Sherri Greenberg, LBJ School
• The Hon. former State Senator Talmadge Heflin, Texas Public Policy Foundation
• Austin American-Statesman editor Fred Zipp

Other speakers will include Web developers and transparency activists involved in projects such as Congresspedia, billhop.com, Development Seed, the Sunlight Foundation and citability.org.

This conference will feature videoteleconferencing between the LBJ Library in Austin and UT's Archer Center in Washington, D.C. A limited number of seats are available for participants in Washington, D.C.

A free lunch will be provided to registered attendees.

Event Web site: http://21stcenturyproject.org/transparency_conference.htm

This event was organized and will be hosted by students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs enrolled in the Policy Research Project "The Interactive Budget Project."