Why the U.S. government approach to open government is flailing – and how to fix it

[Alexander Howard]

Hi all --

My apologies for any cross-posting. I hope you're all staying cool in this heat.

On June 10, I filed a comment in response to the GSA's RFC, finding that the U.S. government's self-assessment suffers from opacity and omission.

You can find it on Regulations.gov, along with two other (much shorter!) comments on the docket.

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/GSA-GSA-2024-0002-0037

I've posted it as HTML, with the links to outside websites that the GSA said wouldn't be acceptable in the filing:

https://governing.digital/2024/06/21/the-u-s-governments-self-assessment-of-its-performance-on-open-government-suffers-from-opacity-and-omission/?ref=civic-texts.ghost.io

It's not a short comment, so I've summarized the analysis here and added more context: 

https://civic-texts.ghost.io/why-the-biden-harris/

Feedback welcome, as always.

Best,

Alex