East Central MA – President Obama’s staff today begins public participation in what the White House says “sets the stage for that conversation by summarizing the input we received on participation during the Brainstorm,” started a week ago.
The Executive branch of United States government reports thousands of citizens took part in Phase 1 of the President’s “Open Government Brainstorm.” Phase 2, officials, say was the Discussion stage leading to public involvement. The project is headed by Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government.
Here’s how Noveck has grouped the topics for the discussion starting today through Saturday.
- Enhancing citizen participation in government decision-making
- Promoting civic education
- Improving technology and policy frameworks
- Enhancing e-rulemaking
You should review the National Academy of Public Administration breakdown to get up to speed for the discussion phase. Here’s the doc.
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The White House has a chronology of how four days of public discourse is to play out.
- Today - address "Enhancing citizen participation in government decision-making." On this topic, you offered a number of suggestions.
- Tomorrow - turn from talking about how government can create better opportunities for participation to address how to promote the civic literacy needed to participate effectively in government.
- Friday - will focus on technology, the other on policy and talk about the policies we need to support the adoption of new tools for civic engagement by federal agencies.
- Saturday - open up a dialogue on the specific topic of how to improve online public participation in agency rulemaking and talk about the new Regulations.gov Exchange site, which is set up specifically to generate brainstorming about how to enhance the quality of participation in rulemaking processes.
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