The president should review and improve upon the existing e-rulemaking initiative, which needs dramatic change. Since regulatory procedure is designed as a publicly accountable process, electronic rulemaking initiatives could revolutionize the way citizens understand and interact with federal agencies. The American Bar Association is completing an 18-month review of the existing e-rulemaking system and making recommendations for improvements. The president should ask his CTO, E-Government Administrator, and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator (at OMB) to review these recommendations. A key element will be to incorporate open programming interfaces (such as application programming interfaces) in the system design and to ensure adequate funding is available to implement recommendations. The regulations.gov website needs to be overhauled to be consumer-friendly.
- From the 21st Century RTK Agenda
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This is so true. I would incorporate my reference the ABA critique here.