Open Government Directive - Read and Discuss It Here

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Comment by GovLoop on January 28, 2010 at 4:05pm

Very cool Stuart...congrats! Feel free to cross-post your blog on GovLoop as well...it's a good model for others.

Comment by Stuart on January 28, 2010 at 3:24pm

Business.gov, an SBA program, has just published several datasets to meet the OGD. You can find them on the Small Business Administration's Open Page: http://www.sba.gov/open/


If you'd like to get a little more insight about web services and why they are useful to your agency's constituents please read my article on making Public Data More Accessible Through Web Services. If you are a developer looking for government data to get your hands on please visit our Web Service API page.

Comment by GovLoop on January 20, 2010 at 4:14pm

Yep...opengovplaybook.pbwiki.com and http://www.govloop.com/group/opengovplaybook?commentId=1154385:Comment:766133

Comment by Justin Mosebach on January 20, 2010 at 3:51pm

Are there plans to webcast or post video from the "Meeting the Open Government Directive" event?

Thanks!

Comment by John Moore on January 9, 2010 at 10:24pm

As someone who is very much involved with efforts in the private sector, and who is working to learn more about the needs of the public sector, I have to ask if it would make sense to include private sector people, perspectives, more deeply into the conversations. I could absolutely be wrong but it feels like there would be real value in unifying approaches across agencies.

I know the OGD is vague, what are the approaches that agencies are following to meet this directive?

John

Comment by Barb Roll on January 3, 2010 at 12:58am

We (Microsoft) just created a downloadable, technology-agnostic Open Gov Plan template to help you get started. You'll find it here--step 3, top left: http://bit.ly/OpenGovTemplate

Comment by Joe Flood on December 11, 2009 at 3:17pm

Where are the all the web developers going to come from? That's a lot of web sites and data feeds to be published online. Somebody has to actually do the work. I'm sure these mandates will be passed down, person to person, committee to committee, task force to task force, until some poor IT specialist is tasked with doing all of these projects at the last minute.

Comment by Noel Dickover on December 8, 2009 at 5:07pm

Scott, the real concern here is if Agencies determine this is just yet another buzzword to "comply" with, they will each have a designated FTE or "fall guy" (known as the Agency POC) who spends his/her time producing documents for OMB, but that nobody in the agency actually listens to or cares about. We all can list examples of this (Federal Enterprise Architecture, anyone?), but the bottom line is with every new "change the world" initiative, this is always a concern. Every Agency will have feelers to determine how serious this effort is. The aggressive timeline, if strictly pushed, could be interpreted in that light. You can certainly imagine someone saying, "If we can't get the job done right, than by God, we'll get it done fast!"

The answer to address this concern is ongoing collaboration between OMB action officers and agency POCs. The emphasis should DEFINITELY be on getting it right versus getting it done on time. This message should be conveyed through both overt and tacit signals.

Comment by Scott Horvath on December 8, 2009 at 3:06pm

@Noel: You make some very valid points. It is an aggressive timeline and I'm sure that not every agency will be completed within 45, 60, 90, 120 days, etc. There's a lot of coordination that has to occur internally amongst various teams that, quite honestly, have probably never worked with each other directly for any extended period of time. This is going to be a challenge for everyone.

Comment by Noel Dickover on December 8, 2009 at 2:58pm

I'm actually concerned about the aggressiveness of the timeline. If the Agency plans are really supposed to be completed within 120 days, the question I would have is what level of detail and coordination & buy-in is expected? Has every Agency already identified the right office for Open Govt? If not, this itself may take a month or two. Couple this with soliciting input from the public (and BTW, does this input solicitation constitute and information collection - if so, there's 6 months for the paperwork reduction act process tacked on to this), and the 120 day period, if met, probably hasn't involved serious input from "senior policy, legal, and technology leadership in your agency."

Again, the concern is the plan will only be updated every two year. If its simply rushed out, it becomes more of a paperwork exercise. I would be happier with say a 6 month timeline on this. In practice, this will most likely happen anyways.

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