Browsing: open government directive

A year has passed since the White House issued the Open Government Directive, laying out requirements for agencies to increase transparency, participation and collaboration. Tune in here at 2 p.m. for a White House progress report on the initiative, or join the  Facebok discussion.

Cass Sunstein, the Obama administration’s “regulatory czar,” gave a speech at the Brookings Institution this afternoon. Regular readers are probably familiar with most of its content — the open government directive, OMB’s dashboards for transparency and  IT projects. But Sunstein made a couple of interesting points on the limits of open government initiatives.