055 Government Transparency with Peter St. Cyr

On this week’s podcast Paul sits down with longtime journalist and government transparency advocate Peter St. Cyr. St. Cyr is now leading a new government transparency startup called: OpenAccessNM.org.   After briefly discussing the current status of government transparency in New Mexico Paul and Peter discuss the organization’s efforts to take government transparency to the “next level” by empowering Citizens with government data to inform, shape and direct public policy, build smart cities and improve quality of their lives in a connected world where information and knowledge provide everyone and opportunity to thrive.