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Who is running Change.gov?
As everyone probably knows by now, Change.gov the website of "The Office of the President-Elect" is having problems. It is evidently being overwhelmed by traffic. This morning it took me several tries before a page would load and the site delivered error messages instead. The site also had a page of Agendas, which it has since removed and replaced with a singe page http://change.gov/agenda/ without any details. Although the site is a dot-gov site, it says, "Content copyright © 2008 by Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization. All rights reserved." So, who is running the site? Why the lousy service? Why the scrubbing of agendas? Why the copyright? Netcraft reports that the I.P. for Change.gov (69.25.74.162) is owned by Blue State Digital which also hosts the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Continue reading
The Transition: Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-To-Know Agenda
Sean Moulton, the Director of Federal Information Policy at OMB Watch, announced a new collaboratively written government transparency report: Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-To-Know Agenda: Recommendations to President-Elect Obama and Congress You can sign on here and download the report at either of these two links. Continue reading
Change.gov back online
The website of the "office of the president-elect" is back online after apparently going down because of overloaded servers.
- Technology We (Want to) Believe In, By Allan Holmes, Tech Insider, November 6, 2008.
The Transition: Information, Technology, and Information-Technology
There is a lot going on during the current transition to a new Administration with regard to information policy, technology policy, and information-technology (IT) policy. Sometimes these overlap, but not always. I wanted to take this opportunity to bring together some resources relevant to government information and technology policies during this transition period. John Shuler has begun some comments here on FGI, which I hope will spark comments and discussion.
The Environmental Protection Agency has had an ongoing National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information since April, and they have issued a draft report:- Draft Information Access Strategy (PDF) (22pp, 682K)
Obama’s Technological Promises
Ok, Mr. President...fulfill your technological promises! I am very excited about some of his proposals, especially in regards to government information transparency and access. Mashable.com posted "A Final Look at Presidential Technology Policy" earlier this week and they had this to say about Obama vs. McCain's plans:
Rather than focusing on anti-trust and and subsidies, as Barack Obama intends to do, what would be better would be focusing on creating an environment where corporate taxes were lowered, and other tax incentives were emphasized for start-ups who focus on better information infrastructure. Senator McCain’s tax plan is moderately favorable towards this theory, though it is likely simply a coincidence convenient to this argument rather than a well thought out technology policy. When it comes to the basics, both presidential candidates are generally on the right track, and are generally in agreement as well. I’ve outlined above where they differ, though, and I think history has shown that Barack Obama’s desired policy directions would be more detrimental to innovation and growth for the tech sector.Interesting that they believe Obama's desired policies may be detrimental to technology. I'm not well versed enough on the issues of Broadband/Anti-trust & subsidies to know whether or not I agree. What do you think? Mashable also has a great blog post on "Government 2.0: The Presidential Transition". I agree with the author's sentiment that the new President must look to the needs of the entire nation, and we need to giver our input too.
...citizens should be engaged in the transition process,...In an increasingly fragmented media and information society, that level of engagement requires more than a press release and newspaper coverage. It means full multimedia engagement using blogging, speeches, informal gatherings, mobile technologies, podcasts, online video, and widgets. The outreach should also use social tools that allow bidirectional conversation, increasing citizen participation and interest in government.Continue reading
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