Identify success stories and learn from them
There are too many ideas here, too many redundancies, too many postings often irrelevant to establishing what the president is trying to do. ...more »
There are too many ideas here, too many redundancies, too many postings often irrelevant to establishing what the president is trying to do. Brainstorming is one thing, shotgunning is another. The further out the pellets go the further away from the target they get.
In order to help focus a little better, maybe NAPH should post openness/transparency success stories. What do we know about what works and what doesn't. Not that what has worked (and hasn't worked) in the past necessarily will work in the future, but at least it will give some useful 'fundamentals of implementation' to the thinking about that future. Cite by agency, DOD, NIH, NSA, WH, DOS, NSC, etc. Why did what they did that worked work. Why were there failures? Where did the public benefit the most and the least - how does one measure success?
This NAPH/Schmidt type of exercise generates many wonderful thoughtful ideas and clearly this technological methodology of scouring the country side for those ideas is extremely valuable, but my concern is that too much effort generating ideas and shifting them and playing with them technically could result in too much process and not enough implementation. And to those who think that we have to spend a lot of time on the front end, I suggest that after the WH establishes broad managerial and openness goals, you may find that we learn a lot more about how to proceed as new opportunities and obstacles reveal themselves) once the implementation ship is well launched than we do in the pre-implementation planning stages.
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