President Obama's New Virtual Community Created to Shape his Open Government Directive

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The Obama administration is starting to implement the idea of using collaborative tools internally as part of their management approach.  (I have been discussing with the Federal website folks various ways to expand this approach.)
 
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On February 16th, a new government-wide community - the Open and Innovative Government Community - was created on the MAX Federal Community system to capture your ideas on how best to implement the President's Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/.  The directive calls for agencies to work together to create a new level of transparency, participation, and collaboration across government and with the public.

The new Administration wants ideas from those of us “in the trenches” about how best to meet these goals.  Over the next 100 days, the Open and Innovative Government Community will convene a series of on-line conversations to brainstorm innovative strategies, evaluate their promise, and flag potential challenges (legal, technical, and operational) that must be overcome. ).  If you have an idea -- or an innovation you want to highlight -- log in to MAX and let them know how you would make our government more transparent, participatory and collaborative:  https://max.omb.gov/. Ultimately, these conversations will shape the President's Open Government Directive to all executive departments and agencies.

All government employees are invited to participate in the discussion and anyone with a government email (.gov) can participate now (including contractors and state and local governments).  I have attached a PowerPoint with specific instructions. If you do not have a .gov address, OMB is developing a public facing website to mirror the same process running for the .gov community. It will be available in early March.

 

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