Open government, Gov 2.0, and eGovernment all continue to move forward. To where it is we are headed, I am not convinced that anyone really knows. We all use larger then life terms like “open”, “transparent”, “efficient”, “effective”, “engaged” and others to describe this utopian future. But so far, no one has really been able [...]
The Obama administration has recently released a scorecard of the agency open government plans (The scorecard is available here) that were just completed. It is great that the administration is releasing these scorecards and giving the community some insight into how they are evaluating success. But as a former fed with some moderate experience with [...]
When it comes to government and politics, there is what is called engagement and then there is the real deal engagement. There are agencies that launch twitter streams, maybe have an RSS feed for their blog, they may have a Facebook fan page, and they think or at least say that they are engaging the [...]
Yesterday Federal agencies were required to release their Open Government plans and I am sure that there are a number of people out there looking at how well they did – me included. First, I applaud the agency staff that developed these and got these out. During my time in the Federal government, I worked [...]