Posted on 04/27/2009 12:21:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Campaigning for president, Barack Obama pledged to bring greater transparency and openness to the White House and to use technology to reboot government.
One hundred days has not been nearly enough time to achieve his ambitious goals, but academics, technology analysts and nonpartisan groups say the man billed as the first "tech president" is off to a good start.
On January 21, his first full day in office, Obama issued a memo informing the heads of agencies and departments that making government "transparent, participatory and collaborative" was a top priority of his administration.
The primary vehicle for accomplishing his goals -- the Internet.
Besides revamping the official White House website, WhiteHouse.gov, the Obama administration has created several other sites including recovery.gov to track the economic stimulus bill and transparency.gov to monitor spending.
It has also announced plans to launch data.gov, a site which will "make a broad array of US government data" available to the public.
"Besides just making his Saturday speeches YouTube events, they're treating the Web operations of the administration as a sort of frontline aspect of their policy," said Lee Rainie of the Washington-based Pew Research Center.
"They've put together a team of folks with the goal of taking e-government to the next level," said Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
"But it's one thing to say that the White House is going to act this way," Rainie cautioned. "Whether other parts of the executive branch are going to be as happy to embrace these applications remains to be seen."
Julie Germany, director of George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, said the first indications are positive.
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first "Asian-American president"
2nd "black president"
2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Transparent? What the hell are they talking about? Odumbo has not been transparent at all. It was just another lie by the administration that is again championed by the willing accomplices in the press.
Sounds like a Pravda article about the Great CCCP economy as the real people looked over empty bread shelves.
The most important and expensive bill place in front of Obama was not given any “E” exposure and wasn’t even read (or so they claim) by our public service workers.
He’s our first half white president.
Personally, I’d take the worst Bush deficit - 1/3 of what Obama deficit projections are.....
Obama is a coward period.
these techie-geek clowns who voted for him truly believe that he is going to allow them to vote on all policy issues in real-time using Google and Twitter....
Another load of garabge from AP...Here’s their record
http://www.theusmat.com/consumer.htm
This lad is a veritable cornucopia of “Firsts”
How much empty ridiculous praise can the MSM heap on the Kenyan?
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