Open Government: Taking Stock, Looking Forward -- Bringing Institutional Innovation to the Public Sector through Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration, Presented by Beth Simone Noveck
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Open Government: Taking Stock, Looking Forward
1. Open Government: Taking Stock,
Looking Forward
Bringing Institutional Innovation to the Public Sector through Transparency,
Participation, and Collaboration
Beth Simone Noveck
U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer & Director, White House Open Government Initiative
2. Memorandum on Transparency and Open
Government
• First Executive Memorandum
• Bringing change to Washington and breaking
with 8 years of secrecy
• Articulating 3 principles: transparency,
participation, and collaboration
• Transparency promotes accountability
• Participation strengthens decisions
• Collaboration enables others to help
Jan. 21 Presidential Memorandum on
Transparency & Open Government
3. Early Milestones
“The Obama administration is well on course to be the most open in modern times.”
-The New York Times
• Nation’s First Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer
• White House Open Government Initiative to Drive & Coordinate
• DOJ Issues Pro-Transparency Guidelines for Freedom of Info. Act
• Recovery.gov to enable Americans to track the Recovery
• Open for Questions and New Media driven engagement
• Data.gov to bring more government information online
• Open policymaking forums
• Broadband.gov
• HHS Launches Competition for H1N1 PSA
• White House announces unprecedented release of visitor logs
4. Proliferating Opportunities for Open
Policymaking
Tapping the Intelligence and Expertise of the American People
Open Government * Declassification * Cookies
5. Next Steps in Open Government: Unleashing
Innovation Across Government
Open Government
Policy
Open Government in
Service of National
Priorities
Open Government
Platforms
6. Next Steps in Open Government Policy
Instilling a Culture of Openness and Transparency across Government
Open Coordinate policy on transparency,
Open Government participation and collaboration
Policy Government
Initiative
Require policy, legal, and technology
leadership in every agency to develop
Open Government in Open Government Plans with public
Service of National input
Priorities
Drive distributed culture change
Open Government
Platforms
7. Open Government Directive
• The thousands of ideas, blog posts and wiki entries have directly informed the crafting
of an OMB Directive on Open Government
• It will begin with an idea championed by the public during the brainstorm phase -
instilling a culture of open government by requiring each agency’s leadership to develop
its own Open Government plan
• As called for by the public, those plans will be subject to public consultation and
comment prior to drafting and subsequent to their implementation
• The plans will require agencies to develop a schedule for publishing data online in raw,
structured, machine-readable formats based on priorities and to undertake
participation and collaboration initiatives
• Establishes a comprehensive review of the Administration’s information policies
• In short, the forthcoming Open Government Directive will represent another key
milestone in the President’s ongoing strategy to bring change to Washington and
innovation to government institutions
8. Achieving National Priorities
Improving everyday living through open ways of working
Transparency Patent Office data transparency builds
Open Government businesses
Policy
Participation Consumer Product Safety consumer
Open Government in opinion forums; Redoing the Federal
Service of National Register to enhance
Priorities
Collaboration Apps for America!; Apple iTunes U
Open Government Supports Continuity of Learning
Platforms
9. Open Government Projects
• Veteran Benefits: Veterans Administration challenges
19,000 employees to cut the backlog for Veteran’s benefits
• Energy Independence: DoE supports 100 MPG X-Prize
• National Security: Department of Defense launches
Aristotle expert networking across the Department to
connect scientists and technologists to solve problems
• Healthcare: Department of Health and Human Services
hosts first Code-A-Thon, bringing together open source
developers to enhance and build upon CONNECT, a
software gateway for nationwide health information
• Entrepreneurship: Business.gov connecting the public to
one another
10. Open Government Platforms
Facilitate Open and Collaborative Ways of Working
Open Policy
Open Government
Policy Government Process
Platforms Technology
Open Government in Facilitate the reuse of best practices
Service of National through a platform for open
Priorities government tools
Open Government
Platforms
11. Open Government
Platforms to Instill a Culture of Openness
1
Transition to open and
collaborative ways of
working.
2
Make it easy and
cost-effective for any
agency to implement
open government
priorities.
12. IT Dashboard Building a Culture
of Accountability
• Launched June 30, 2009
• 30 million+ hits since launch
• Measures performance against “on-time”,
“on-budget”, and CIO evaluation
• Builds on the success of Shinseki review
halting 45 current projects
Source: www.whitehouse.gov & it.usaspending.gov
14. Why Open Government Matters:
Connecting Institutions to Networks to Take
Action and Solve Problems
• Collaborative democracy at the center of
the administration’s governing
philosophy.
• Institutional innovation to produce open
ways of working.
• Recognizing that government does not
have all the answers and public officials
need to draw on what citizens know.
• Not to aggregate preferences but to divvy
up roles and tasks and share in the hard
work of governance together.
17. “I ran for President because I
believe that we cannot solve the
challenges of our time unless we
solve them together.”
–President Barack Obama, May 21, 2009
Source: ITIF Report “The Atlantic Century”, February, 2009
18. What Can You Do to Design 21st Century
Democracy?: We are Just at the Beginning!
• Transparency: Identify 5 data sets where transparency will
achieve an important policy objective in the same way that the
Toxic Release Inventory encourages companies to reduce their
use and emission of toxic chemicals voluntarily; Create a
document management system that will decrease FOIA
requests while increasing access to information.
• Participation: Design the best open policymaking platform for
effective rulemaking; design the best processes for open
grantmaking.
• Collaboration: Design an IT-based system for managing
chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma that improves
health outcomes while reducing costs by a third . Establish a
prize for the best automated, online mentoring system to
promote entrepreneurship.