{"id":575,"date":"2011-12-13T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/?p=575"},"modified":"2011-12-13T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:15:17","slug":"seeking-your-input-on-the-u-s-open-government-national-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/2011\/12\/13\/seeking-your-input-on-the-u-s-open-government-national-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Your Input on the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On September 20, 2011, on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly, the President announced the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan<\/a>.\u00a0 The Plan was developed through a process that involved extensive consultations with external stakeholders, including a broad range of civil society groups and members of the private sector, to gather ideas on open government. \u00a0As we continue our work to implement the National Action Plan, we want your help.\u00a0 Specifically, we’d like your input and recommendations on how to improve and help facilitate public participation – your participation – in government.<\/div>\n
The United States committed to undertake 26 Open Government initiatives in the National Action Plan, and we are working to implement each of them now.\u00a0 For example, the White House recently announced<\/a>\u00a0that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be the senior U.S. official to lead implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an effort to ensure that taxpayers receive every dollar due for extraction of our natural resources.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 A major milestone<\/a>\u00a0was also reached in the development of an open government platform<\/a>\u00a0that will enable governments around the world to stand up their own open government data sites. And just last week, the President fulfilled a commitment<\/a>\u00a0made in the National Action Plan to begin a government-wide effort to reform and modernize records management policies and practices.<\/div>\n
We are now requesting your assistance with one of the initiatives in the U.S. National Action Plan designed to promote public participation:<\/div>\n
Develop Best Practices and Metrics for Public Participation<\/strong>. We will identify best practices for public participation in government and suggest metrics that will allow agencies to assess progress toward the goal of becoming more participatory. This effort will highlight those agencies that have incorporated the most useful and robust forms of public participation in order to encourage other agencies to learn from their examples.”<\/div>\n
Given the focus of this initiative, we thought it would be most appropriate to invite you to provide input and ideas on best practices and metrics for public participation, including but not limited to suggestions and recommendations that address the following questions:<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the appropriate measures for tracking and evaluating participation efforts in agency Open Government Plans?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What should be the minimum standard of good participation?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How should participation activities be compared across agencies with different programs, amounts of regulatory activity, budgets, staff sizes, etc.?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the most effective forms of technology and web tools to encourage public participation, engage with the private sector\/non-profit and academic communities, and provide the public with greater and more meaningful opportunities to influence agencies’ plans?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are possible mechanisms for agencies to increase the level of diversity of viewpoints and backgrounds brought to bear in their activities and decisions?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the most effective strategies for ensuring that participation is well-informed?<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are some examples of success stories involving strong public participation, as well as less-than-successful efforts, and what lessons can be drawn from them?<\/div>\n
Please send your thoughts to us at opengov@ostp.gov<\/a>\u00a0or use the web form provided<\/a>, by January 3, 2012.\u00a0 We will consider your ideas and input as we continue to implement the U.S. National Action Plan and develop this best practices guidance on public participation.<\/div>\n
Special thanks to Richard Charter<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 20, 2011, on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly, the President announced the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan.\u00a0 The Plan was developed through a process that involved extensive consultations with external stakeholders, including a broad range of civil society groups and members of the private sector, to gather ideas on open … Continue reading Seeking Your Input on the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}