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if a community-side initiative generates data about community-side social services, and we want this information to be included in DC's 2-1-1 system, which is government-operated... how can we make that happen? What does the government need to be able to accept non-government data as legit?
- Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info
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So the comments are not going to the open government office. They are going to an office in EOM. In order for the recommendations to be reviewed by the open gov staff, all responses should be forwarded. And that is not a guarantee. That’s why the rec: To ensure that all comments provided by the community re: the open government initiative are forwarded to the open government office.
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Feedback from leaders in the Fair Budget Coalition. (Hopefully they'll have someone participating in the conversation next week...) Note that a lot of this may need to be reframed into terms that describe the process by which the outcome they want can happen.1) Open up the process of planning the Mayor's side of the budget. Have public hearings and meaningful opportunities for public input as the Mayor puts together his budget.2) Track where the money goes and how it is spent. The agencies are incredibly non-transparent. Does ANYONE know what the hell goes on in OSSE's budget? No. And DHS? After the Council allots the money, we need to be able to track what happens to it.
3) Tracking data on the programs we fund. We pour lots of money into various programs in education, human services, housing, health, etc. But the gov't doesn't usually track the programs to see if they're working. It would be mighty helpful to know the stats of how successful (or not successful) the programs are that we spend public money on.
5) Participatory budgeting. It's embarrassing that I know so little about this, but we should be finding more ways to open up the budget process to more meaningful participation.4) Needs assessments. I don't know if this counts as "open gov't" but we have major issues with the fact that when the Mayor makes his budget every year, it's based only on what the budget was the previous year, not at all based on what the need actually is. So tracking needs in the city would help us direct our money and our programs to where there is the most need.
6) Tracking and publishing which developers and corporations we give major tax breaks to and then tracking what they do with our tax breaks and if we're actually making that money back in sales/property taxes the way they argue we will.
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A general thought on Code for DC and our role vis a vis DC's open gov is that anytime the city kicks off an initiative (or task force... say dept parks & rec efficiency or DCPS boundary processes, for example), if there is a data component that should be evaluated/taken into account (and there always is), Code for DC can serve as an impartial voice/resource. (does that sound about right, Matt?)
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