OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

Some time ago a suggestion was floated about creating a U.S. Public Service Academy along the lines of national military academies. As I see it, the public engagement issue would be subsumed into the Public Service Academy, a much broader approach to improving all aspects of governance and communication with the public.

The office of public engagement is actually very different from what this idea is suggesting. The OPE will serve as a convener of the public on different policy issues (hopefully). What is needed is a resource in the federal government that can collect best practices, offer training, etc. The only two existing places I'm aware of that could potentially easily evolve this way would be the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and the new Office of Social Innovation and Civic Engagement.

In 2000 I called for a University of the Republic to integrate entry-level, journeyment, mid-career, and senior leaders across the eight tribes of intelligence. The book, ON INTELLIGENCE, is free at www.oss.net as well as for sale at Amazon.

See Open Source Agency for an implementing idea that would fund your own idea as part of a schoolhouse to White House public intelligence in the public interest network.

There used to be two federal efforts -- the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations -- which once played important roles in fostering collaborative efforts among federal agencies and, in the latter days of their existence, fostering more participatory strategies for resolving conflict and driving change. A Federal Institute on Participatory Governance (or a better title) could fulfill some of the important research functions played by these institution, offer training, play a convenor role and have a mandate that covers both public engagement and collaborative governance. Pulling these important streams of work together will be important to mainstreaming the work within the bureaucracy.

Possibly related: "Create an Open Government project directory and knowledge base" (http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3420-4049)

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Back to paper ballots. Give the "Voting Machines" to RED CHINA, let them be usless over there, where there is NO need to cheat the voters by programming the machines for the CFRs fav candidate/traitor.