OPM | Owning Transparency:
People, Processes & Technology

18 February 2011
Office of Personnel Management
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From the original invite:

Is your agency benefiting from transparency or just ‘checking the box’?

If your agency is only doing the bare minimum required for OMB submission, you’re missing an opportunity to improve internal operations, public service provision, and mission fulfillment. Transparency can be more than just an accountability mechanism — but to do so, it must be grounded in the agency’s mission and tailored to its work environment.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has developed their Open Government plan with this in mind and invites you to explore the internal benefits of taking ownership of transparency. They’re excited to share their experiences, and learn from yours.

A Focus Forum to Develop a Guide to Owning Transparency

The purpose of this event is to stimulate and document new thinking in the area of transparency. All discussions will help build an inter-agency Guide to Owning Transparency that will be made available for use by all agencies.

Updates

3 October 2011

Owning Transparency

I’m excited to announce the Open Forum Foundation’s very first official publication:

A Guide to Owning Transparency

How Federal Agencies can Implement and Benefit from Transparency

[Get it here]

This work is based on the in-person discussions hosted during the Focus Forum Owning Transparency: People, Processes, and Technology at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on February 18th, 2011 and contains some remarkable contributions by a host of academic authors that have been involved in OPM’s Open Government implementation since the beginning.

In addition, the fabulous Maxine Teller helped edit the document!

Here’s the Executive Summary – check it out. »

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