{"id":236646,"date":"2026-04-06T01:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:31:31","slug":"time-capsule-revisiting-open-governance-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236646\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule: Revisiting Open Governance Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Heller, former OGP Co-Chair, visited Austin in 2015 and made predictions for 2020. Here is his follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Austin skyline.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Austin skyline\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, as the City of Austin prepared to join the Open Government Partnership, OGP&#8217;s Nathaniel Heller spoke at the City of Austin&#8217;s Open Government Symposium. His topic &#8212; predictions on where open governance would land in 5 years. Read the post at the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/r4d.org\/blog\/four-things-look-open-government-next-five-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four Things to Look for In Open Government in the Next Five Years<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here we are, 5 years later, and we&#8217;ve opened the time capsule to revisit our predictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR version: most of the 2015 ideas remain relevant and important!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Nathaniel Heller, former OGP Co-Chair, visited Austin in 2015 and made predictions for 2020. Here is his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-236646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}