Dear All,Further,The Transparency and Open Govt may work with(as stated,
slightly edited)
1)
Transparency Principles
How do we define transparency so that we can
prioritize our policymaking?
2
Transparency Governance:
How do
we institutionalize transparency across all government agencies and
establish structures to ensure thoughtful and
considered progress toward transparency?
3 Information
Access:
How do
we improve the efficiency and effectiveness of access to government
information? How do we improve the
Government’s ability to disclose information pro-actively and bring down the
cost and burden of compliance with Right to INFORMATION Act 2005
4
Data and Metadata:
What
technological approaches might be used to improve access toGovernmen data?
What Government-wide approaches to data and metadata should we be undertaking?
How can we
improve the usefulness of Data.gov, the Government’s new platform for
access to data?
5
Open Government Operations:
What are the strategies for making the workings of
government more open and
accountable? How do we balance openness and other constraints, like privacy and
efficiency?
Col Dharma
--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Kris Dev <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Kris Dev <[email protected]>
Subject: [bm] Transparent and open government
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 2:41 PM
Dear all,
The following memorandum on "Transparency and open government", is an
initiative of Barack Obama; it is relevant to every government of the world and
must be followed in letter and spirit to introduce accountability of government
to its citizens - the stakeholders in a democracy!!
Would the Honourable Prime Minister of India create such a transparent and open
government in India too, for the sake of true democracy in India?!
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 12:00 am
Transparency and Open Government
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness
in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish
a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.. Openness
will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in
Government.
Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and
provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing.
Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My
Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to
disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use.
Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put
information about their operations and decisions online and readily available
to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public
feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.
Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's
effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely
dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that
dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans
increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their
Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information.
Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we
can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.
Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans
in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use
innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across
all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and
individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should
solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and
to identify new opportunities for cooperation.
I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General
Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments
and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government
Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive
departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles
set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the
Open Government Directive.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA
http://www.whitehou se.gov/the_ press_office/ Transparency_ and_Open_
Government/
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