White House Wants Open Gov't Insight
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wants the public to weigh in by June 19 on how the U.S. government can embrace 21st century tools to increase openness and transparency and facilitate better communication with citizens. OSTP is expected to run a notice in the Federal Register on Thursday, which stems from President Obama's Jan. 21 memorandum on a proposed open government directive. The inquiry will ask questions like:
• What information should be more readily available online or more easily searched?
• How might the operations of government be made more transparent and accountable?
• How might federal advisory committees, rulemaking, or electronic rulemaking be better used to improve decision making?
• What alternative models exist to improve the quality of decision making and increase opportunities for citizen participation?
• What are the limitations to transparency?
• What strategies might be employed to adopt greater use of Web 2.0 in agencies?
• What policy impediments to innovation in government currently exist?
• What changes in training or hiring of personnel would enhance innovation?
• What performance measures are necessary to determine the effectiveness of open government policies?
Comments can be submitted by one of the following methods:
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/open (which will go live Thursday)
• E-mail: opengov@ostp.gov
• Mail: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Attn: Open Government
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