BREAKING: White House Invites the Public into Open Government – Finally
by Sean Moulton, 5/20/2009
The Office of Science and Technology Policy is preparing to post a notice in tomorrow's Federal Register asking for ideas from the public on possible recommendations for the Open Government Directive they were tasked by president Obama to produce.
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bama issued a memo about the Open Government Directive on his first day in office. The memo gave the Chief Technology Officer 120 day to develop recommendations for the directive. That would make the official deadline May 20. The deadline for public comments is June 19. Whether this extends the May 20 deadline for official recommendations from the CTO or if the administration will separately release a draft of the recommendations tomorrow is unknown.T
he notice prompts participants with a small series of general questions such as “How might federal advisory committees, rulemImage by flickr user kofoed used under a creative commons license.