Lucas, this is awesome!
Really looking forward to seeing where this post-event conversation goes and the potential for other engagement.
Hope to see many of you (or hear from you during the livestream) Thursday!
Cori
From: us-open-g...@googlegroups.com [mailto:us-open-g...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lucas Cioffi
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:26 PM
To: US Open Government
Subject: Re: Remote Participation after Thursday's OpenGov Public Meeting
Hi All,
For those who cannot attend in-person, there's going to be a place online where we can gather at 4pm Eastern on Thursday (after the livestream). Prior to the event, please create a free account and RSVP here: >http://qiqochat.com/e/ARQIRufhClTjmWOJEyqcHVmra/IXSLzcLPkGTpqGHbjvEkKBDBQ<
This will be a highly engaging and conversational session, and you'll be able to discuss any topic that is important to you related to the livestream. This is not a webinar; this is more similar to an online coffee shop–informal and interactive.
For many reasons, we believe it's important to create ways for remote participants to engage in-depth, and we're running this as an experiment to see what we can create for the OGP Summit in Mexico in October. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!!
Lucas,If you haven't seen it, there has been considerable collaboration between various groups on a model open gov national action plan, led by Abby Paulson of OpenTheGovernment.org.You can find it here:Participating organizations:Brennan Center for Justice
Center for Democracy and Technology
Constitution Project
Council for a Livable World
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Demand Progress
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Government Accountability Project
InterAction
National Security Archive
OpenTheGovernment.org
Project On Government Oversight
Publish What You Fund
World Privacy Forum
Now, I wonder how the process of combining them will go. That might be an area where software helps, putting them side by side comparison or "mail merge" -- ultimately, there will be a final version.
I wish this could be broader than open government activists and wonks, but it's hard to get the public to believe it matters. Unfortunately, putting "restore trust in government" on the plan is neither concrete enough not easy to do.
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Thanks, Lucas.
I’m glad we’re having this conversation (or reviving this conversation, as it were). It’s really important to our USG teams that we bring in as wide an array of stakeholders as possible and we know we aren’t capturing everyone we could be including. I mentioned
this at the event last week and it’s true: we need your help with this. So I’m glad to see folks are willing to step up and help!
I’d like to spend some time discussing this next week at the Interagency Open Government Working Group meeting, especially since it’s the open meeting with USG and civil society. If folks could think more beforehand about possible solutions or even things to experiment with, let’s plan to discuss next week. (Please see the other thread in this discussion group about the meeting.)
Thanks again to all who are working to help increase participation of this important work from inside and outside of government.
Cori
PS: Lucas, you didn’t “fail!” … Let’s consider it an opportunity for improvement for all of us!
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