[govinfo] Open Government Directive process in place
- From: "Patrice McDermott" <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <govinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "FEN" <fen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:07:43 -0400
As promised on President Obama?s first full day in office, the White House has
launched a process for soliciting public input and participation in the
development of Open Government Directive. The public may participate in a short
three-phase process:
Through May 28 -- Brainstorming: The public can submit and rank ideas regarding
how the government should become more transparent, participatory and
collaborative. Proposals voted down will still be kept and archived in
compliance with the Federal Records Act.
Starting June 3 -- Blog Discussion: the public and federal employees will be
able to discuss some of the top ideas and challenges raised during the
brainstorming session. For example, how can privacy and security be protected
as government data is made available? What is the best way to change the
culture of government to embrace collaboration?
June 15 ? 19 -- Wiki-based Drafting: the public will be able collaborate on
crafting the language of recommendations on open government. These formal
recommendations will become the framework for how the open-government directive
will be implemented.
As each of these processes becomes open, we will post the link.
Additionally, recommendations and communications for the open government
directive that the administration has received over the last few months can be
read at the open government inbox
http://www.ostp.gov/cs/opengov/from-the-inbox/ hosted by the Office of Science
and Technology Policy features. It does not contain documents received during
the transition, so previous submissions seem to require resubmission.
This process will be followed by a traditional interagency review and the
internal crafting of recommendations. We have been assured that the public
will have an opportunity to review and comment on the recommendations, and that
all of the comments and other outputs will be public.
Many aspects of this process accord with the requests made in a recent letter
signed by more than 60 open government organizations and advocates. See our
press release for more information.
Patrice McDermott, Director
OpenTheGovernment.org
www.openthegovernment.org
202.332.OPEN (6736)
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