President Obama stated during his weekly radio address last Saturday that he is actively soliciting ideas from federal workers at all levels for making government more efficient. Although plans are forthcoming, Government Executive has created a forum for suggestions using Google moderator.
Here is the URL for submitting ideas: http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=5ad32
If you do not have, or do not want to set up a Google account to participate, you can also submit a comment at the bottom of the story from GovExec
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=42580&dcn=e_ndw
The beauty of the tool that GovExec selected – Google Moderator – is a free tool available to anyone, that allows for voting on others’ ideas. This in itself is an efficiency initiative. The only missing link is that you aren’t able to comment on others’ ideas. I encourage everyone to join the movement. It’s going to take all of us to make this work. I can’t wait until the Obama administration comes up with a method of soliciting ideas. I hope it is similar to the change.gov website.