The Obama Administration is gathering advice on where it should focus its transparency efforts in the short term using the social site Quora.
In the lead so far is making federal agencies stop using proprietary publishing formats such as PDFs in favor of formats from which people can easily cut and paste and that machines can read.
There’s also strong support for strengthening whistleblower protections; and the White House petition site We the People comes in for some abuse as well.
Share your ideas with the White House here.
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Joseph Marks
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
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