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        <title>Tech Daily Dose: Web Activist Wants To Run Printing Office</title>
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            <title>Web Activist Wants To Run Printing Office</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="malamud.jpg" src="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/malamud.jpg" width="178" height="284" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /></span>Internet and government transparency activist <strong>Carl Malamud</strong> has launched a gutsy campaign to get himself named to run the Office of the Public Printer of the United States in the <strong>Obama</strong> 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, <a href="http://www.YesWeScan.org">YesWeScan.org</a> (a play on Obama's "Yes We Can" campaign motto), lays out a seven-point platform for shaking things up.</p>

<p>Malamud says the GPO should:</p>

<p>1) Lead the effort to make all primary legal materials produced by the United States readily available.<br />
2) Work more closely with the nation's libraries and reform the Federal Depository Library Program.<br />
3) Retrain and refocus its workforce by creating a U.S. Publishing Academy<br />
4) Enhance security for passports and other secure documents <br />
5) Create more materials for the public domain (books and master files for remixing)<br />
6) Should work with the rest of the government to change how information is put online <br />
7) Become fully transparent in its own financial affairs and serve on the front lines of customer service </p>

<p>His effort has support from a host of high-tech and transparency thought leaders including: <strong>Tim O'Reilly</strong>, <strong>Tim Wu</strong>, <strong>Lawrence Lessig</strong>, <strong>Ellen Miller</strong>, and <strong>Cory Doctorow</strong>.</p>]]></description>
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