One of the major new, community-focused initiatives of this administration is called Promise Neighborhoods:
"The President’s Budget also provides funds to support Promise Neighborhoods, a new effort to test innovative strategies to improve academic achievement and life outcomes in high-poverty areas. The program will be modeled after the
Harlem Children’s Zone, which aims to improve college-going rates by combining a rigorous K-12 education with a full network of supportive services—from early childhood education to after-school activities to college counseling—in an entire neighborhood from birth to college."
In order for the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative to succeed, there must be effective collaboration among numerous federal strategies; inspiring and authentic public participation in the neighborhoods; and outcomes-based collaboration among schools, local government agencies, and nonprofits; in other words, many of the strategies of the Open Government Initiative.
The Administration should design the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative as a demonstration project for the key strategies of the Open Government Initiative to show how an initiative can unfold with effective participation and collaboration.
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Great idea. We desperately need the capability to tag (e.g. community, education) at the comment level, and to link to other related ideas, what the "system" is providing is not nearly good enough. Voted for your idea.
COnsider visiting the Open Source Agency idea, it provides for free education and free access to all information in all languages both within the USA and globally to create "wealth of networks".