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The Open Government Conversation Continues

Tuesday, June 16. 2009 at 11:49 PM | by Coby Logen in Government 2.0

The White House is leading a first-class discussion on Open Government.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the White House has been blogging about and moderating a public conversation about Open Government for a few weeks, and they recently put out a great summary of the discussion about Collaboration proposals.

Several of my top concerns made it on the White House's short list, including:

Supporting public-private partnerships, which have been an astounding source of innovation. OSTP mentions several notable partnerships in another blog entry.
Supporting agency competitions, which can yield great results for huge savings, such as Apps for Democracy.
Creating a public open source code repository for government source code and software development projects.
Creating and supporting an environment for collaboration across all levels of government and government agencies.
Aggregating and sharing related government content in useful ways with Web 2.0 technologies.
Allowing and encouraging federal employees to innovate through tools like TSA's Idea Factory.

The discussion about Open Government has covered some great topics and been lively at times.

However, at the time of writing this blog, one topic was dreadfully lonely with ZERO comments: Enhancing Citizen Online Participation Through Policy.

Policy isn't the sexiest topic, especially when discussing the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act. But these policies are extremely important for the Obama administration to reassess if it hopes to increase online citizen participation. Hopefully some policy-savvy commentators will join the conversation and reinforce this message, which several Federal employees have already delivered.

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