On Tuesday, the Federal CTO, Aneesh Chopra and CIO Vivek Kundra announced the open government initiative directive. The directive has 4 steps: Publish Government Information Online, Improve the quality of government information, create and institutionalize a culture of open government, and create an enabling policy framework for open government.
CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra Launch Open Government Plan
Today at Acquia we are kicking off a webinar series to address the Open Government Directive. Our first Acquia Webinar today is: The Open Government Directive and Open Source Social Publishing. We will be joined by the NY State Senate CIO, Andrew Hoppin about his movement to implement transparency, participation, efficiency, and collaboration at the state level. If you would like to learn more please register for the webinar and participate in our Q&A session. This will be an ongoing webinar series for all the agencies looking to comply with the various steps of the directive.
Open government is a bold initiative for the US federal government. It is built on an effective model of openness and collaboration best implemented by open source communities like the Drupal community. The Drupal community has a long history of stepping forward to help new users succeed when their organizations need to get websites up quickly. In that spirit, we'll review what hundreds of US government agencies and departments need to get done in 45, 60, and 120 days as part of this directive and how using Drupal can help them succeed in implementing this directive.
Read more about Drupal and the open government directive in my blog post.