Jtm-pnw-session-gov-online

Participants:

Karen Toering

Ken LeBlond

Mike Fancher

Daniel Lathrop

Matt Rosenberg

Harold Shinsato

Jeris JC Miller

John Spady

Notes

• journalists should be the instigators of making government open

• humanistic voice needs to be heard in the new technologies

• government should be consumer focused like VA is trying to be via social media

• government is made of people who bear responsibility to reach out to the community and community is responsible to see governments as people (humans)

• How do we systematically mine public records?

• What is the clearinghouse for government online efforts?

• Online world is solution oriented where print journalism is problem-oriented

• Journalists role is to stand in for citizens

• The good and creative voices will stand out

• Government credentialing of journalists will inevitably be relaxed

• Barriers to who gets to speak (MSM) are dropping

• Governments should be rewarded for being on the leading edge of digital media

Action Steps

• Forum Foundation and Washington Coalition on Open Government will collaborate on open government issue forum around Sunshine Week

• Washington COG will look to expand its Key Awards to recognizing government agencies work on online openness. Lathrop (Gov2.0 author) will work with WashCOG.

• We will contribute individually to a clearinghouse of open government online efforts at WashingtonCOG.org