The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday launched its new open government Web site. The new site is in response to President Obama's open government directive, which was issued on Dec. 8 and instructs agencies how to make the federal government more open, how to bring citizens into the policy-making process and how to collaborate with other government employees, the public and private industry. The directive requires agencies to create within 60 days an open government Web site and publish within 120 days an open government plan that describes how it will improve transparency and boost public participation.
"We are committed to providing information that will increase opportunities for the public to participate in and give feedback on our agency's core mission activities," the new OpenOPM Web site states.
Visitors to OpenOPM can sign up and share ideas as well as discuss and vote on ideas. Participants can use their existing AOL, Google, Yahoo or WordPress accounts to sign up, and they can also create a personal profile.
Ideas submitted between now and March 19 will help craft OPM's official open government plan, the Web site states.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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