OMB recently reached out to government and industry leaders for new approaches to making good tech ideas work. The first wave of recommendations is in, and OMB is now looking at them for things that it can act on now. Key recommendations build on past ide
Why don’t airlines give out peanuts anymore? A federal rule to protect people with food allergies. Is this too Big Brother and you want your peanuts back? You’ll have to participate in a rule-making process.
Making government service cool again? Obama’s challenge to young Americans to take up public service may be foundering over the political debate over the size of government, notes recent surveys.
How do you create a collaborative data collection and performance reporting system involving a range of stakeholders in communities, watersheds, or land restoration efforts?
Coordinators are the pinnacle of Citizen 2.0: they see a systemic, chronic, or pervasive problem in government or society and forge the tools or develop the processes to solve it.