White House invite to online group about U.S. gov open government efforts

The White House Office of Science and Technology is asking for
feedback on improvements to their http://whitehouse.gov/open

In reviewing their updated site, I notice something very exciting - an
online group linked in a profile way inviting conversation,
collaboration, and news-sharing.

Join from:

     http://bit.ly/usopengovgroup

Be sure to choose "Send me an email for every new message" or sign up
for the daily digest, otherwise you will not receive any messages from
the group.


"Welcome - The goal of this group is to provide a safe and welcoming
arena for government-focused collaboration and news-sharing around
Open Government efforts of the United States government.

Specific topics may include:

The Open Government Initiative
The Open Government Plan
Freedom of Information Act efforts
Open Data projects
Citizen Engagement"
...

Today there are 158 members.

This online group was first opened in collaboration with
http://OpenTheGovernment.org which has a role at the civil society
convener in the global Open Government Partnership in the U.S..

Now that is has a profile link on http://whitehouse.gov/open and will
rely less on word of mouth for recruitment, it should be interesting
to watch this space evolve. I encourage you to join.

FYI - While I am a member there, hat tip to Luke Fretwell for posting
about it to the nearly 2,000 member global Open Government and Civic
Technology Facebook Group that I run:

     https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/

    (This 100+ nation group is on fire with daily posts related to
open gov and civic tech.)

One thing I am interested in is whether interest in OGP might spread
to state and other levels of government in the U.S.. As there isn't an
online place tied to government for federal-state-local open
government collaboration, I wonder if those joining this online group
will stay U.S. Federal government focused or if those joining will
want to explore open government policy across U.S. governments. The
fact that for example the White House e-petitioning platform hasn't
spread to state governments/Governors/state legislatures suggests the
need for more joined up policy work across the public sector.

As the keeper of the "list of lists" in this space -
http://e-democracy.org/learn (6th link down), I should mention that
when you join to the global OGP civil society hub you can join their
online group there as well: http://www.ogphub.org/profile/  I should
also mention that the UK OGP mailing list is very very active as well:
https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/ogp-cs-uk



Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
  Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
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Received on Friday, 5 September 2014 12:00:18 UTC