Half of U.S. Cabinet agencies fail to comply with Open Government Directive

[Alexander Howard]

As of last Friday, half of cabinet agencies had not uploaded a 2016 open government plan, as directed by OMB. http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/09/16/half-of-u-s-cabinet-agencies-fail-to-comply-with-open-government-directive/

As of this Monday, the Commerce Department had caught up.
Still waiting on ODNI's first plan.
The VA has not published a new plan since 2010.
The White House OSTP, despite being tasked with coordinating open gov plans and engaging the public at @OpenGov, is not leading by example: still no 2016 plan.

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Alexander B. Howard 

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[M. Andre Goodfriend]

It's good to keep the focus on, and hold us accountable to our commitments.  As I see it, that's one of the elements of Open Government --- that there are publicly trackable commitments. 

While our draft is going through our internal processes prior to publication, we do have the working document, as of 9/14, available online at  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R3oKk0NWv5mypdpApLVjnpRnOVX7MiVPIGmtsUJeL5Q/edit

We very much appreciated the public input and drew on it in preparing the document, as well as helping us shape how we engage with the public.

The live-streamed discussion is also available at https://govup.course.tc/2016-DoS-OGP/live-events/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCF_SF01lMk

 We'll look forward to maintaining the open engagement.

M. Andre Goodfriend

Senior Advisor

Office of eDiplomacy

U.S. Department of State