OpenGov - Open Government Brainstorm

This will also allow wide swaths of people to comment on the content of the training material -- incredible feedback which will make the next edition that much better.

Some problems:

We might not want some methods & practices made public -- water treatment plant procedures, chemical facility security practices, etc.

There is probably also some revenue loss from foreign govts (who might usually pay) using the videos. The benefits of that probably greatly outweigh the lost usage fee revenue though.

Great idea. Maybe other govts would copy it and we'd have govts sharing info on practices for free, rather than flying govt workers around the world to host each other, tour facilities and give tired presentations. It might be a good idea to attach this to any existing govt working group/program that assists agencies in communicating with their foreign counterparts via video conferencing.

Access should be from a government site rather than youtube, but same idea.

I'd rather see the videos hosted independently of the government.

Do we have any examples of these videos? I've never gone through government training, so I'm kind of lost here.

I'm assuming exceptions for sensitive material.

This can be a great supplement to face-to-face but not instead of. Dialog and deliberation are interactive processes and most valuable as such.

@hina - I think you're missing the point. As government produced documents, these should be available to the public for review and comment. I'm sure real training uses interaction, but that can't be posted to a website.

There is a lot of training out there like this already it is just hard to find.

I found and took tons of training through the CDC, FAA, DOT, Air Force, etc... Some still required payment for the books but many online were completely free.

this would help learning escape the traditional bottlenecks - managerial approval