This was forwarded here in reference to this blog post.
Starting in 2011 and every two years afterward, the White House has drawn up an open government national action plan that is intended to contain specific, measurable open government commitments. The planning process is an outgrowth of the Obama administration’s open government initiative, which kicked off in 2009 when agencies were first required to create open government plans, but takes place on an international scale.
While we were heartened to see the Obama administration adopt one of our recommendations — a machine readable government organization chart — most of the other ideas were not put into action. We reiterate and update them here and call on Congress to require the administration to put them into effect. In summary, they are:
Access to Information
Create a proactive disclosure playbook, which provides guidance to agencies on how to identify datasets and other information ready for immediate online publication.
Follow through on the commitment to create a standard set of agency regulations governing the FOIA process.
Improve public disclosure of agency reports to Congress.
Examine how Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act often impedes online publication of FOIA requests.
Lobbying and Influence
Use modern methods to collect and publish data about foreign lobbyists.
Significantly improve disclosure around lobbying efforts aimed at OIRA, which oversees major agency rulemakings.
Financial Transparency
Public agency Congressional Budget Justifications, which describe agency plans in plain language at a high level of detail, on the White House’s budget page in modern formats.
Improve disclosure of funding information for the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy, which coordinates FOIA policy.
Gather better data on which FOIA fees are collected.
Rule of Law
Proactive disclosure of more opinions by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which often are de facto law for agencies.
Government Operations
Improve how the government creates and collects data through forms.
Provide better information on USAJobs, the federal employment website, including greater detail about telework and the actual employment location.
Create a free alternative to DUNs.
This is not a complete list. The White House should also publish its visitor logs, release financial conflict of interest forms online, and so on.
This was forwarded here in reference to this blog post.
Starting in 2011 and every two years afterward, the White House has drawn up an open government national action plan that is intended to contain specific, measurable open government commitments. The planning process is an outgrowth of the Obama administration’s open government initiative, which kicked off in 2009 when agencies were first required to create open government plans, but takes place on an international scale.
The Trump administration said it will continue this process and is collecting recommendations for the 2017 plan. (More explanation via the Sunlight Foundation.)
While we were heartened to see the Obama administration adopt one of our recommendations — a machine readable government organization chart — most of the other ideas were not put into action. We reiterate and update them here and call on Congress to require the administration to put them into effect. In summary, they are:
Access to Information
Lobbying and Influence
Financial Transparency
Rule of Law
Government Operations
This is not a complete list. The White House should also publish its visitor logs, release financial conflict of interest forms online, and so on.