{"id":649685,"date":"2013-03-29T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=a3c1c63f7d5b2fcfa0f00f9afc2a0f15"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:02:05","slug":"open-government-a-time-for-self-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649685","title":{"rendered":"Open Government: A Time for Self-Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;The role of citizens in our democracy does not end with your vote.&nbsp;America&rsquo;s never been about what can be done for us. It&rsquo;s about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government.&rdquo; &#8212; President Barack Obama, November 7, 2012<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the first day of the Obama Administration, the Federal government has worked to make government more efficient, effective, and responsive to citizens&rsquo; needs. The Administration has harnessed new technology to engage the public, worked to disclose information more quickly, and given citizens a greater voice in decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2011, the Administration&rsquo;s work was launched on the world stage when President Obama and other world leaders endorsed the principles of the global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengovpartnership.org\/\">Open Government Partnership<\/a> (OGP). As part of our commitment to OGP, the United States launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/us_national_action_plan_final_2.pdf\">National Action Plan<\/a>, a set of twenty-six concrete commitments that help increase public integrity, promote public participation, manage public resources more effectively, and improve public services. Praised by civil society organizations and the public, the Plan stands as a great example of what we can do as a country when government, civil society, and the public collaborate together. As the President has said, &ldquo;Put simply, our countries are stronger when we engage citizens beyond the halls of government.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are proud to report that the United States has fulfilled twenty-four of those commitments. You can read more about the implementation of our National Action Plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/ogp_selfassessment_march2013.pdf\">here<\/a>. Some highlights include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/open-government-time-self-assessment\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;The role of citizens in our democracy does not end with your vote.&nbsp;America&rsquo;s never been about what can be done for us. It&rsquo;s about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government.&rdquo; &#8212; President Barack Obama, November 7, 2012 Since the first day of the Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}