5/25/09
Forward from Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute:
U.S. President Obama issued a Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, calling for an unprecedented level of openness in government. In the memorandum, the President outlined three principles for promoting a more open government: transparency, participation, and collaboration. Now, Obama is calling on U.S. citizens to help shape how that commitment is fulfilled.
The Administration has set up a website at http://opengov.ideascale.com to gather ideas from the field, get them commented on and voted up or down, and then to discuss the leading proposals and weave them into a program.
The brainstorming, commenting, and voting stage of this process is open to the public until Thursday, May 28, 2009. So if you want to join this effort, please do so now.