The White House released its second Open Government...
The White House released its second Open Government National Action Plan Friday, intended to build on the three-year project to give citizens more access to government information and databases (http://1.usa.gov/1blIat2). According to a blog post (http://1.usa.gov/18q3Vbg), the new plan will…
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improve the White House’s “We the People” online petitions platform; consolidate the Freedom of Information Act online service and develop common FOIA standards for all government agencies; include a new version of data.gov with expanded access to agriculture and nutrition data; and promote a “participatory budgeting” process “giving citizens a voice in how taxpayer dollars are spent in their communities.” The post’s authors, Deputy Chief Technology Officer Nick Sinai and Senior Director-Development and Democracy Gayle Smith, said the new plan “is another opportunity to set concrete and measurable goals for achieving a more transparent, participatory, and collaborative government."