Obama and others commit to “Google government”

Government, it has occurred to various US think tanks, is far from ideal. Two of them seem to have proposed an

Oath of Presidential Transparency to help taxpayers see where their money is spent.

* By signing the oath, the candidates are promising, should they win the presidency in 2008, that they will issue an executive order instructing the entire executive branch to put into practice the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
* That act includes a Google-like search tool that will allow taxpayers to go online and see exactly how their tax dollars are being spent on federal contracts, grants and earmarks.

This sounds like part of Uncle Buck’s plea, all those years ago, that we make government navigable (and nothing else...yet).

*Cheers Eamonn!

Published by William Heath on 07/11/07 at 10:04pm

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Let's say what we want from e-enabled government. Let's observe government first-hand. Let's say "Wouldn't It Be Better If" (WIBBI). Become an ethnographer of bureaucracy today! It beats getting frustrated with public services.

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