The president should create a new central Office of Transparency (run by the Government Transparency Officer (GTO) to oversee disclosure and dissemination practices, promote increased transparency throughout government, and address privacy rights.
The office would be responsible not just for transparency, but the plethora of regimes that restrict the dissemination of information as well. This individual and his or her agency would be in the best position to balance all the government's information and dissemination regimes, with a particular emphasis on transparency. This office must be given authority to disapprove programs and, working with the Chief Technology Officer, system acquisitions and the budgets for them.
- From the 21st Century RTK Agenda
Comments (3)
Wow, that would be one heck of a powerful office!
This really is silly. How about an Office for Restoring the Constitution?
The government is BROKEN in near-treasonous ways. This is a well-intentioned badly executed initiative by the Obama Administration, but it is a crack that needs to be widened.
I think is a noble idea in concept, but in practicality another government czar or office unfortunately won't solve the problem. Existing oversight organizations like GAO and agency OIG can assess the extent of transparency - the real key will be to incent agency leadership to see the value of being transparent in the first place.