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Reports and Recommendations

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

Record Chaos: The Deplorable State of Electronic Record Keeping in the Federal Government

• Committee on the Status & Future of Federal e-Rulemaking - 2008

Achieving the Potential: The Future of Federal e-Rulemaking. A Report to Congress and the President

• Congressional Management Foundation

Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue

• David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William P. Zeller, and Edward W. Felten. Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008.

Government Data and the Invisible Hand

• Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg (an independent review)

The Power of Information

Annotate-able version of the Power of Information

• Demos

Agile Government: A Provocation Paper

• Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency

• Marc Galanter. Law & Society Review, Vol. 9:1, 1974.

Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change

Also: Joel B. Grossman, Stewart Macaulay, Herbert M. Kritzer. Law & Society Review, Vol. 33:4, 1999.

Do the "Haves" still come out ahead?

• Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Recent reports on accountability and government oversight

• The Open House Project

The Open House Project Report

• Enabling Collaboration

NAPA Report on Collaboration in Government, Enabling Collaboration: Three Priorities for the New Administration.

• The American Association of Law Libraries

Statement to The Obama-Biden Transition Team: Public Policy Positions of The American Association of Law Libraries

• Governance Studies at Brookings:

Improving Technology Utilization in Electronic Government around the World, 2008

• Granicus, Inc.

A New Definition of Government Transparency

• Champions of Participation - a meeting of 34 managers from 23 different federal agencies and departments, discussing

and developing recommendations for President Obama's Open Government Directive. This meeting took place March 30-31, 2009.

Executive Summary Report, March 30-31, 2009

• Coalition for an Accountable Recovery - includes OMB Watch, Project on Government Oversight, the Sunlight Foundation, and Good Jobs First, and dozens of other open-government groups

Comments for OMB April 3 Interim Guidance on Implementation of the Recovery Act (M-09-15), April 17, 2009

Helen Darbshire / AccessInfo : http://bit.ly/dz9K75

Hearings

• Committee on House Administration

September 27, 2006 - The IT Assessment: A Ten-Year Vision for Information Technology in the House

• Video and Text of the hearing