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President Obama open to open government community

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As you do:
"(M)embers of the openness community today met with President Obama to discuss a range of transparency issues."
Well it wasn't that routine or unremarkable:
"The Oval Office meeting ? during which the president was given an award for his work thus far in encouraging agencies to release information to the public ? was the first time that longtime open government advocates in Washington recalled a sitting president meeting with them to discuss government transparency."
More about the meeting here.

Those who attended were Lucy A. Dalglish Executive Director Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch; Tom Blanton, executive director of The National Security Archive at George Washington University; Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight; and Patrice McDermott, director of OpenTheGovernment.org.

Dalglish, Blanton and McDemott were generous in slotting me in for a chat during my visit to Washington last month.

Who knows-if we had an identifiable openness community, prime ministers and premiers might also be interested in an occasional exchange of views?

Full post as published by Open and Shut on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).

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