Great blog post from John Geraci on O'Reilly:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/the-four-pillars-of-an-open-ci.html

John mentions C2C,C2G,C2C and G2G where C= Citizen and G=Gov. Substitute the variables and John is talking about a community organism that communicates without the barriers of concealed data or complicated front-ends for accessing that data.

We built SeeClickFix on these principles and are excited that someone finally put it so eloquently.