... agencies to break down barriers to transparency, participation, and collaboration between the federal government and the people it is to serve. Last week, the Obama administration published the Open ... it will be adopted by governments and organizations all around the world. While the path to an open government will be a long journey with many challenges beyond just picking a website technology, ...

Privacy issues relating to the recent flurry of open government efforts are the subject of a Web event this Wednesday, hosted by Federal Computer Week. ... A Q&A session will follow Mr. McCartney's talk. WHAT:  Privacy and open government Web event WHEN: Wed. Dec. 16 at 11 A.M. (ET)  WHERE:  The Information Superhighway REGISTER:  Online here  ( ...

... can’t wait till the end, click here to see what others have said about the Administration’s Open Government policy and why it matters.) This new degree of openness is enabled in ... the American people.  I am particularly pleased that, for the first time, the public will have immediate access to government data that for too long had been shielded from view by excessive secrecy and ...

... transparency, accountability, participation, and collaboration within the Federal Government. This group, with senior level representation from program ... guidance and privacy guidance, to identify impediments to open government and to the use of new technologies and, where necessary, issue clarifying guidance ... revisions to such policies, to promote greater openness in government.” (p.6) 1 year ...

... Orszag said. OMB, at the President’s direction, released the Open Government Directive that requires agencies to take immediate, specific steps to open their operations to the public.  The White House unveiled the ... in the online forums and offered ideas on how to transform the government into a more transparent, accountable, participatory operation. In addition to the ...

... stay informed about developments in the implementation of the new "Open Government Directive", then you have found the right place.  ... " of the U.S. federal government.  Notices about upcoming shows ... -group (see above). HERE is the announcement for Today's release of the Open Government Directive: THE WHITE HOUSE Office ...

... extent that is practical, should publish their data online in an open format that can be "retrieved, downloaded, indexed, ... released Tuesday. The Obama administration's Open Government Initiative also requires U.S. agencies ... quot;This initiative means people will have more information about their government in a timely, searchable format that can be accessed anywhere they have an Internet ...

... the Obama Administration means when it talks about a new relationship between government and citizens. And some of what's in the OGD is reasonably firm -- concrete ... 's leadership, for example, will, in 120 days, come up with a detailed Open Government Plan of their own; within 45 days, each department ... "high-value" data sets in an open format, and appoint an internal point-person ...

... Directive (PDF) and the Open Government Progress Report to the American People (pdf). #OGD Wordle ... today, instructs the agencies to take specific actions to open their operations to the public. The three principles of transparency, participation, ... documents for your perusal. To what levels are these directives enforceable? Who will be monitoring and how? U.S. Open Government Directive – ...

... 2.0 Taskforce, entitled "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0" (hmm, not quite sure about that phraseology). ... response to this report, the Australian Government should make a Declaration on Open Government, stating that: * Public sector ... service will help achieve a more consultative, participatory and transparent government; * Online engagement by public servants involving ...

... Officer, Vivek Kundra, announced the arrival of the Open Government Directive. This was done as a live web chat at ... Management and Budget, all stakeholders, such as the state and local government) and 3) focus on results. The goal has also been to move ... .gov. With the directive in place, Chopra and Kundra believe the government will see savings, see focused collaboration, and a more smoothly run ...

... earlier this week, the White House released their Open Government Directive, a big step toward reality ... objectives (with deadlines) for all federal agencies-- to draft their own Open Government plans, to appoint a high-level ... OGI is about improving communication between the American people and their government. Both are facilitated by new technologies, and both initiatives are reflections of a world ...

... use their authority to make these changes real." Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists, writes on his ... for publishing a new high value data set. And, again, the public has to scream if what they come up with is not actually anything useful. Open government advocates are largely happy for now. But if the administration lets them down, ...

... and concrete performance metrics are filled with articulations of the broad principles of open government widely agreed upon by advocates. But they take on new import when it' ... ;So instead they end up grudgingly doing the bare minimum and not really participating at all. So what should the government do? They should make this a collaborative process.  Rather than edicts from on-high ...

... of transparency, participation and collaboration form the cornerstone of an open government. Transparency promotes accountability by providing the public with information about what the Government is doing. Participation allows members of the public to contribute ideas and ... and private institutions." The Open Government Directive (OGD) puts forward a schedule for ...