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MN Creates Collaborative Governance Council

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The Minnesota Legislature recently passed a bi-partisan bill that was signed into law to create a Collaborative Governance Council that will increase collaboration between state and local government.  Might this be an inspiration for the federal government?
 
The law creates a 12-member council to develop recommendations to increase governmental collaboration by:
  • reviewing laws and rules that slow collaboration efforts;
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House Passes Results Act Amendments

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According to the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, this bill “eliminates waste, promotes high-performing, results-oriented government.”

The Mouse That Roared

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The Administrative Conference of the U.S.

Using Open Gov to Identify Low-Priority Programs

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As a separate exercise from the Budget Guidance for FY 2012 released earlier this week, OMB director Peter Orzag issued additional guidance asking agencies to identify low priority programs:
 
“Your agency is required to identify the programs and subprograms that have the lowest impact on your agency’s mission and constitute at least five percent

OMB's FY 2012 Budget Guidance

Submitted by on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 13:41

OMB released specific guidance to agencies on how they should prepare their budget submissions to OMB, which are due September 13. The key element being that agencies should submit requests that would be 5 percent below what was estimated for FY 2012 when OMB submitted the president’s FY 2011 budget in February. There have been good stories on this in the Washington Post and

Five Ways Twitter Can Adapt Itself for Government

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Twitter is set to hire its first employee in Washington, DC, a Government Liaison.  That’s great news.
 

Gov 2.0 Requires Us to Update Our Code

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Last week, I talked Gov 2.0 with two Senior Research Fellows at the Mercatus Center, Jerry Brito and Veronique de Rugy.  As advocates of transparency, we were all in agreement that the trend lines over the past two years are good, but that current offerings are woefully short of the mark—and much less than was promised during the last Presidential campaign.

3D Worlds Come to Government

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I saw an intriguing article in Government Computer News, by Alice Lipowicz, on how the departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, the National Defense University, and the Air Force are getting together to create a government-only 3-D “virtual world” where they could conduct training and joint exercises. Paulette Robinson, dean of NDU’s “iCollege,” told GCN “Webinars are boring,” and that the immersive experience of bringing people together on-line can be dramatically improved.

Weekly Roundup: March 27 – April 7, 2017

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John Kamensky

Warner Letter re: DATA Act. Federal News Radio reports: “Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent letters to 24 chief financial officer agencies on Friday, urging leadership to “prioritize efforts” to comply with the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act. . . . Warner, an original backer of the DATA Act, asked five questions to agency leaders about their progress toward the May 2017 implementation deadline.”

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