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Posted by Peter Orszag on December 08, 2009 at 10:52 AM EDT On his very first day in office, President Obama signed a memorandum to all federal agencies directing them to break down barriers to transparency, participation, and collaboration between the federal government and the people it is to serve. As an example of the steps taken in response, the White House, for the first time ever, now publishes the names of everyone who visits. We are also publishing online never-before-available data about federal spending and research.
Promoting Transparency in Government | The White House
Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0: Draft report for comment
Here is the draft Government 2.0 Taskforce report Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 . The Taskforce is seeking your comments and input before finalising the report to go to Government. Please understand that this is a draft and there will be some proofing issues which we are still working on.
USDA to Mix Social Media into Online Training - General News
USDA spicing it up One of the leading online training programs in the federal sector has an interesting idea to improve the completion rate and overall quality of its online courses. The USDA’s AgLearn program has plans to install social media and “Facebook-style” aspects to their training program in order to provide a more traditional classroom structure to the emerging world of online training. Some of these aspects include blogs, wikis, groups, and comment/user tracking. OhMyGov recently spoke with Stanley Gray, the USDA’s director of e-training, about this new idea and how it is coming along:In this interview I talked with Stephan Stephensen, Founder and CEO of Mingoville.com Mingoville is an online community for kids between 5 and 15 to practice English. In fact it is much more than that.
Stephan Stephensen of Mingoville.com
From Overwrought to Overly Simple: Is Green Design Anti-Style? |
Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had become overwrought, with limited edition candleholders that sell for $2,700. For all its pain, the downturn gave design a chance to revitalize by taking on the pressing problems of infrastructure, energy efficiency, and transit.