Experiments in Civic Sensemaking
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For some time, I’ve been suggesting the creation of a national public participation calendar and project directory as a key component of the Open Government Directive:
May 2009: Open Government Dialogue: “Create an Open Government Project Directory and Knowledge Base”
January 2010: Open Government Needs Public Participation Calendars
Based on this post on NextGov, it looks like the U.S. Environmental [...]
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A few days ago, a new site was launched that helps track activity across the 23 federal agencies that are using IdeaScale for their consultations on Open Government: OpenGov Tracker
This webpage makes use of the IdeaScale API to aggregate data for all agencies which are making use of that platform. USDA and Health and Human [...]
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Following up on my list of ten things to monitor, I’ve started a thread on GovLoop: Monitoring and continuous evaluation of OpenGov forums
Here’s my initial post:
As part of my ongoing efforts to monitor the various feedback channels that have been launched as part of the Open Government Directive, I’ll be tracking some basic metrics. I [...]
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Now that a whole lot of agency.gov/open websites are live and many agencies have indeed set up a ”mechanism for the public to [...] [p]rovide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan” it’s time to figure out what to watch out for over the coming weeks and months in order to evaluate the success of these initiatives.
As I noted [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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Over at Sunlight Labs, they have some design suggestions today around how federal agencies should approach their new /open website sections with regard to data.
Here’s the comment I just left (pretty much the same point I made on the OSTP blog a few weeks ago when they were seeking input on an Open Government Dashboard):
In [...]
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As was already mentioned at last week’s Open Government Directive Workshop event in DC (see video, starts at around 1:14:20), the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has announced it will offer IdeaScale to federal agencies free of charge in order to help them comply with the tight deadlines presented in the Open Government Directive. From the press release: [...]
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In a post on the White House blog today, Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer and the Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, follows up on some of the questions that went unanswered during the FAQ on Tuesday: Answering Your Questions on the Open Government Directive
Russ Gaskin of Washington, DC commented: [W]ould [...]
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Now that the Open Government Directive is finally out, it’s been interesting to sift through the reactions and read what people think about it.
As several people have noted (here, here), the Open Government Directive’s immediate focus — at least quantitatively — seems to be much more on transparency than on the other two pillars, participation [...]
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Being eagerly awaited by many in the field, the Open Government Directive was released this morning: Open Government Directive (PDF, 84 KB)
Here’s a summary of snippets that deal with participation and engagement:
Participation allows members of the public to contribute ideas and expertise so that their government can make policies with the benefit of information [...]
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