What You Missed: Tuesday Talk on the Anniversary of the Open Government Directive

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On December 8th, 2009, the White House issued an unprecedented Open Government Directive requiring federal agencies to take steps to achieve key milestones in transparency, participation, and collaboration. On the one-year anniversary of the Directive, Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein answered your questions from Facebook and WhiteHouse.gov on the Administration’s progress and where we're going.

You can check out the full video of the chat or use the links below to jump directly to the questions you're interested in. Visit whitehouse.gov/open to learn more about the Open Government Initaitive.

Questions are paraphrased.

• Opening Remarks
• What types of data are now more easily available because of the directive?
• The number of data sets are only important if they are useful data sets. How many are being used by 3rd parties to create applications?
• How can Open Government initiatives be more effectively implemented in local governments?
• Even if government opens up and actually gives out information, what steps are being taken to inform the public?
• Are you going to publish any metrics on usage of Open.gov and Data.gov?
• This is fantastic! How do we advertise this initiative even further? What can citizens do?
• Can you talk about the ways that Administration Officials are engaged in two-way conversations with constituents?
• What steps might you take to institutionalize the principles of transparency and collaboration beyond the Obama Administration?