They overthrew the government. Now they have to work out how to govern

“Fork” is used in open source communities to describe the process of creating another version of the working software. And that’s exactly what Kao wanted to do: An early tool to show how, exactly, the government spends public money was a logical first step towards achieving that.

At this time, the group had no name. “It was just a bunch of people thinking about what they can do,” says Kao. “Open data was just taking off. We thought, how about using open data to improve the quality of policy making in general?”...

They overthrew the government. Now they have to work out how to govern

“Fork” is used in open source communities to describe the process of creating another version of the working software. And that’s exactly what Kao wanted to do: An early tool to show how, exactly, the government spends public money was a logical first step towards achieving that.

At this time, the group had no name. “It was just a bunch of people thinking about what they can do,” says Kao. “Open data was just taking off. We thought, how about using open data to improve the quality of policy making in general?”...