In our crazy messy world, we need a reality check on open governments! Who better to give us this reality check than writer, digital governance expert and long time open government advocate Alex Howard. We had a chance to sit down with Alex at this year's Code for Canada Summit where we discussed not only the current health of democracy but also brainstormed solutions to strengthen our civic capacity. Alex Howard’s Twitter account twitter.com/digiphile The Digital Democracy Project’s Twitter account twitter.com/DigitalDemocrcy Code for America’s Twitter account twitter.com/codeforamerica Richard Pietro’s Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Derek Alton’s Twitter account twitter.com/DerekAlton ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your hosts are Richard Pietro and Derek Alton, Open Government & Open Data practitioners for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/