Andrea Di Maio writes: 9. U.S. Open Government Plans Last year I was not hugely complimentary of the Open Government Directive in the US. Although an important step, as it recites, toward greater transparency, collaboration and participation, it made openness a compliance rather than a business issue for several agencies. The main purpose was notRead… Read more »
Today, I came across this excerpt on “engineering virality,” which, ironically, has been on my mind for the past few days. My conclusion? Virality can’t really be engineered or replicated with any more confidence than a new movie, book, or pop song can be guaranteed to top the charts. Instead, you’re much more likely toRead… Read more »
When Hebert Hoover started the tradition of publishing the presidential papers it could have been considered the first act of open government. After all the papers were designed to make the president and his doings more publicly accessible. But as pointed out in the recent Washington Post story by Lisa Rein is it necessary forRead… Read more »
Never in the history of our country have citizens had a more direct line to the President of the United States. Social Media and other Government 2.0 technologies, combined with a desire to be more transparent, have opened up channels for all of us. Last Thursday and Friday, for example, Press Secretary Gibbs spent 30Read… Read more »
(cross posted on CG-LIMS Project Blog in Intelink-U) Today I want to quickly give you an update on the work of the REconsider Best OptiOns Team (REBOOT) study and tell you specifically how you can help. As we executed our current strategy, we saw it grow to big, too risky, and too costly. We startedRead… Read more »
Gregory D. Jones has published a comment entitled Electronic Rulemaking in the New Age of Openness: Proposing a Voluntary Two-Tier Registration System for Regulations.gov, Administrative Law Review, v. 62, no. 4 (2010), pp. 1261-1286. Here is a summary: This Comment argues that a voluntary two-tiered registration system that acknowledges the role of interest groups inRead… Read more »
OK, holidays are nearing an end; and I’m back to thinking about government communications and customer service. What a year it’s been! Great progress in some areas, like social media. Modest progress toward our long-time goal to make top customer tasks easier to find and use. Not much progress at all (in fact, slippage) inRead… Read more »
Earlier this year GovLoop teamed up with Dreams for Kids and raised over $3,000 for kids in need in D.C. GovLoop Lauren even wrote a blog about Holiday for Hope Here is a video from their holiday party Favorite
Vice Dean John G. Palfrey of the Harvard Law School recently gave a lecture entitled The Path of Legal Information, on 9 November 2010, at the Harvard Law School. In his lecture, Dean Palfrey proposes the development of an open, interoperable system of digital legal information, and describes possible consequences of such a system forRead… Read more »
Hallo, My Love America, liebes Let`s Move Team international,, wir, unsere Let`s Move Group haben 2010 viel erreicht. Ich bedanke mich ganz herzlich bei allen Beteiligten in den vielen Ländern. Besonderen Dank gilt dem Präsidenten der USA Barack Obama und der First Lady Michelle Obama, unserer First Lady Bettina Wulff, unserem Europaabgeordneten Dr. Dieter Lebrecht.Read… Read more »