Web Activist Wants To Run Printing Office
Internet and government transparency activist Carl Malamud has launched a gutsy campaign to get himself named to run the Office of the Public Printer of the United States in the Obama administration. The position heads the Government Printing Office, which is responsible for providing public access to a variety of federal work products. His Web site, YesWeScan.org (a play on Obama's "Yes We Can" campaign motto), lays out a seven-point platform for shaking things up.
Malamud says the GPO should:
1) Lead the effort to make all primary legal materials produced by the United States readily available.
2) Work more closely with the nation's libraries and reform the Federal Depository Library Program.
3) Retrain and refocus its workforce by creating a U.S. Publishing Academy
4) Enhance security for passports and other secure documents
5) Create more materials for the public domain (books and master files for remixing)
6) Should work with the rest of the government to change how information is put online
7) Become fully transparent in its own financial affairs and serve on the front lines of customer service
His effort has support from a host of high-tech and transparency thought leaders including: Tim O'Reilly, Tim Wu, Lawrence Lessig, Ellen Miller, and Cory Doctorow.
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