A number of organizations (listed below) are doing a survey to capture participant feedback from the recent Open Government Dialogue. From the survey introduction:
On his first day in office, President Obama issued a memorandum to leaders of executive departments and government agencies calling for the development of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, that would instruct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles of transparency, participation and collaboration outlined in the memo.In late May, the White House launched a three-stage Open Government Dialogue (OGD) to seek public input and develop content for the directive. A number of leading organizations in transparency and civic participation (listed below) are collaborating to evaluate this process, and the White House Office of Public Engagement has shown interest in this assessment.
We appreciate you taking a few minutes to provide us with your reflections on the OGD process. There are 25 questions in this survey.
Please complete the survey by the end of the day August 14th.
AmericaSpeaks
Brennan Center for Justice
Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Everyday Democracy
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
International Association for Public Participation
League of Women Voters
Liberty Coalition
National Civic League
National Security Archive
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
OMB Watch
OpentheGovernment.org
Public Citizen
This is a good first step in the right direction, since gathering comprehensive participant feedback can help improve process over time. Future projects by the White House should have more feedback mechanisms built into the process (e.g. on an ongoing basis during a project or as part of an additional evaluation phase towards the end of a project).
In addition to participant feedback, it would be nice to know more about the overall evaluation process the White House has in place, e.g. the specific success criteria for each phase or project (with regard to both process and outcome), their evaluation models and techniques, lessons learned etc.
In the spirit of better government transparency, this evaluation process should be open to public view as much as possible.
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