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Update 2010/02/15: Added feeds for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the list below, added National Archives to Pipes feed.

The Open Government Directive, issued on December 8, 2009 stated:

1. Publish Government Information Online

[...]

e. Within 60 days, each agency shall create an Open Government Webpage located at http://www.[agency].gov/open to serve as the gateway for agency activities related to the Open Government Directive and shall maintain and update that webpage in a timely fashion.

f. Each Open Government Webpage shall incorporate a mechanism for the public to:

i. Give feedback on and assessment of the quality of published information;
ii. Provide input about which information to prioritize for publication; and
iii. Provide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan (see 3.a.).

That day is today!

Here are three sites that track which of the agency.gov/open pages are already live or have feedback options in place:

As was expected, most of these sites are using IdeaScale for input gathering and discussion. Some of you may remember this tool from phase 1 of the Open Government Dialogue (see here, here).

Below is a list of RSS feeds available from the various idea gathering and discussion forums (scroll down for link to the ultimate combo firehose feed):

1. Federal Communications Commission

http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/40005-open-how-can-the-fcc-improve-its-work-on-the-open/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37117-engagement-what-are-ways-in-which-the-fcc-can-bet/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37639-engagement-how-can-the-fcc-also-increase-engageme/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37637-engagement-what-technologies-and-practices-could-/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37643-engagement-how-can-the-fcc-better-facilitate-the-/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37175-engagement-how-should-the-fcc-improve-its-engagem/activity.atom
http://rebootfcc.uservoice.com/forums/37118-engagement-in-what-ways-can-social-networks-furth/activity.atom

2. Social Security Administration

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777476/ideascale_7069.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777476/ideascale_comments_7069.xml

3. National Science Foundation

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777472/ideascale_7046.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777472/ideascale_comments_7046.xml

4. Department of Justice

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777454/ideascale_7036.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777454/ideascale_comments_7036.xml

5. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

No RSS feeds available. Feedback option via this contact form: http://www.federalreserve.gov/feedback.cfm

6. Department of Commerce

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777446/ideascale_7029.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777446/ideascale_comments_7029.xml

7. General Services Administration

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777469/ideascale_6960.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777469/ideascale_comments_6960.xml

8. Department of Defense

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777447/ideascale_7067.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777447/ideascale_comments_7067.xml

9. Department of Energy

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777450/ideascale_7031.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777450/ideascale_comments_7031.xml

10. Department of State

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777461/ideascale_7038.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777461/ideascale_comments_7038.xml

11. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

No RSS feed available. Feedback option via this online form: http://www1.eeoc.gov/open/feedback.cfm

12. National Archives

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/811036/ideascale_7239.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/811036/ideascale_comments_7239.xml

13. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

No feedback option available besides generic “contact us” page.

14. Department of Education

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777449/ideascale_7030.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777449/ideascale_comments_7030.xml

15. Department of Health and Human Services

Opportunity to discuss their Open Government Plan on the blog: http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/ourplan_1.html

http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/rss_69775.xml
http://www.hhs.gov/open/discussion/rss_69813.xml

16. Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777467/ideascale_7042.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777467/ideascale_comments_7042.xml

17. Agency for International Development

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777466/ideascale_7110.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777466/ideascale_comments_7110.xml

18. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777473/ideascale_7048.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777473/ideascale_comments_7048.xml

19. Securities and Exchange Commission

No feedback option available besides email address.

20. Department of Homeland Security

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/779496/ideascale_7043.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/779496/ideascale_comments_7043.xml

21. Small Business Administration

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777475/ideascale_7068.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777475/ideascale_comments_7068.xml

22. Federal Trade Commission

No feedback option available yet.

23. Department of Transportation

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777462/ideascale_7039.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777462/ideascale_comments_7039.xml

24. Department of Labor

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777460/ideascale_7037.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777460/ideascale_comments_7037.xml

25. Department of Agriculture

http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=Transparency
http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=Participation
http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=Collaboration
http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=Innovation
http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=Datasets
http://www.usda.gov/open/ideas.nsf/rss.xml?openagent&product=All%20Other

26. White House

No specific feedback options. A number of discussions have been held on the OSTP blog on behalf of the White House.

27. Federal Bureau of Investigation

No feedback option as of this writing.

28. Department of Housing and Urban Development

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777452/ideascale_7033.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777452/ideascale_comments_7033.xml

29. Department of the Interior

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777453/ideascale_7034.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777453/ideascale_comments_7034.xml

30. Department of the Treasury

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777464/ideascale_7040.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777464/ideascale_comments_7040.xml

31. Department of Veterans Affairs

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777465/ideascale_7041.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777465/ideascale_comments_7041.xml

32. Consumer Product Safety Commission

No feedback option as of this writing.

33. Federal Election Commission

No feedback option as of this writing.

34. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777470/ideascale_7044.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777470/ideascale_comments_7044.xml

35. National Transportation Safety Board

No feedback option as of this writing.

36. Central Intelligence Agency

No feedback option as of this writing.

37. Office of Personnel Management, U.S. (OPM)

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777474/ideascale_7047.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/777474/ideascale_comments_7047.xml

38. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President

http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/803629/ideascale_7129.xml
http://www.ideascale.com//userimages/sub-1/803629/ideascale_comments_7129.xml

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I’ve put together a combined RSS feed via Yahoo! Pipes: OGD Open Feedback Firehose

I’ll update the pipe as more forums go online. Leave a comment if you do anything interesting with the feed.

February 15, 2010 by Tim:
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February 9, 2010 by Tim:
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August 2, 2009 by Tim:
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12 Responses to “OpenGov Open Feedback Firehose”

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Sebastian
February 6, 2010 at 4:59 am

ideascale.com is having a party, they are slowly turning into the monopolist among ideation platform providers
Lucas Cioffi
February 6, 2010 at 11:34 am

Great work, Tim!

This firehose is tremendously valuable. I added this to the OpenGov Playbook here: http://www.opengovplaybook.org
Tim
February 6, 2010 at 11:43 am

Thanks, Lucas! Glad it’s useful.
Tim
February 8, 2010 at 1:04 pm

Oops, turns out my original pipe only included feeds from 25 agencies, not 26. Oh well…
Tim
February 15, 2010 at 11:47 pm

I had listed the National Archives site above but accidentally didn’t include them in the Pipes feed: http://naraopengov.ideascale.com
eDemocracy
February 6, 2010 at 4:00 am

[Global] Intellitics, Inc. » OpenGov Open Feedback Firehose: The Open Government Directive, issued on December 8,… http://bit.ly/czlUnK

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intellitics
February 6, 2010 at 4:38 am

New post: “OpenGov Open Feedback Firehose” (combo RSS for 26 agencies) — http://bit.ly/cON0op #opengov

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faheyr
February 6, 2010 at 9:56 am

Great collection of Open Government feeds http://bit.ly/cON0op – Open Feedback Firehose http://bit.ly/bvbrHx (via @intellitics) #opengov

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Netpolitique
February 8, 2010 at 1:46 am

OpenGov Open Feedback Firehose « Intellitics, Inc. http://bit.ly/bISisv

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renesugar
February 11, 2010 at 2:10 pm

List of open government department sites asking for ideas http://bit.ly/cEsFnx

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renesugar
February 11, 2010 at 2:11 pm

@jaketapper List of open government department sites asking for ideas http://bit.ly/cEsFnx

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intellitics
February 16, 2010 at 12:02 am

Added National Archives (NARA) to #OpenGov firehose (now includes feeds from 27 agencies): http://bit.ly/cON0op #gov20

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