- Home
- Topics
- Improving performance
- Implementing the Recovery Act
- Transforming the workforce
- Collaborating across boundaries
- Contracting & acquisition
- Fostering transparency & democracy
- Managing finances & budgets
- Improving healthcare
- Conserving energy & the environment
- Using technology
- Security, power & intelligence
- Strengthening cybersecurity
- New to government?
- Magazine
- Radio hour
- Reports
- Blogs
- About us
Featured
How do you transform the nation’s record keeper? David Ferriero, archivist of the US has a plan. Why make 12 billion pieces of paper available to the world? Ferriero thinks it is mission critical. David Ferriero, archivist of the United States joined me recently on The Business of Government Hour.
On the Radio Hour
In the magazine
The federal budget process is an exercise in time travel. At
any given moment, agency budget and program managers
may live in as many as three years at the...
On the blog
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 11:29
Citizen engagement has traditionally been viewed as citizens participating in community activities such as testifying...
View All content in Fostering transparency & democracy ( 121-130 of 172)
A group of like-minded people from across a range of agencies met to discuss how they might create a collaborative problem-solving network around implementing their agencies' Open Government initiatives. They raised, but didn't resolve, a range of important issues.
0 comments
908 recommendations
The House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a bill to the House floor amending GPRA to require agencies to report on performance quarterly. Other provisions could lead to performance budgeting and activity based cost accounting -- all big changes in government.
0 comments
500 recommendations
The BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created interesting collaborations between government, citizens, media, and industry via various Web 2.0 tools. When will their efforts begin to converge?
1 comments
967 recommendations
What connects the Public Online Information Act and the personal-information aggregation site Spokeo? They both take the ethic "Public=Online" seriously.
0 comments
281 recommendations
Learn about theory and practice of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to increase citizen participation. Topics: GIS data transparency, tapping citizen-volunteered geographic information, enhancing citizen participation in decision making with GIS; current GIS offerings in Washington, DC
0 comments
190 recommendations
This initial column on Governing in the Digital Landscape defines Gov 2.0 as "activities that regulate and utilize the digital landscape," and explains why it is essential that as many citizens as possible involve themselves in the process.
0 comments
653 recommendations
HUD's Open Government Plan is framed around the department's strategic goals. Its leaders decided to make President Obama's hallmark initiative a way of getting business done and not just another compliance exercise.
0 comments
496 recommendations
Since 1998, academics from across the world have competed to prepare insightful and practical research reports and case studies to assist public sector executives at all levels of government to more effectively respond to their mission and management challenges.
0 comments
864 recommendations
The Obama Administration announced today a scorecard of the quality of the plans submitted earlier this month by 29 major agencies. Using a checklist of 30 criteria, the scorecards show all agencies rating either a “yellow” or a “green” on their scorecards....
0 comments
1,334 recommendations