<h2><a title="Permanent Link to Governmental transparency: three panel event" href="http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4560" rel="bookmark"><font color="#000000">Governmental transparency: three panel event</font></a> </h2>
<div class="postmetadata-top"><small>March 15, 2010 ( <a href="http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4560#comments"><font color="#ff7700">No Comments</font></a> )</small></div>
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<h2 style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">Building Governmental Transparency</h2>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><strong>March 19, 2010, 12:00pm – 2:00pm</strong></p>
<h4 style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">Streaming Video</h4>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/sunshine.html/streaming.html"><font color="#ff7700">Click here to watch the event live.</font></a></p>
<h4 style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">About This Event</h4>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">On his first full day in office, President Obama committed his Administration “to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.” To help meet that goal, the Administration has issued an Open Government Directive and a new Memorandum on Freedom of Information Act and Attorney General Guidelines. The Administration has also launched an expansive effort to open up data to developers, advocates, and the public via Data.gov. Join us for this three panel event to hear our panelists – transparency experts from inside and outside government – discuss these initiatives and their effect on the public. Panelists will also take questions from the live and viewing audience. The first panel will focus on the White House’s efforts to embed transparency in the system by, in part, requiring each agency to develop an open government plan, and post open government pages. During the second panel, our panelists will discuss how recent changes to law and policy affect a citizen’s ability to request and receive information from the federal government. During the last panel, developers and advocates will explain how they use government information like the data on Data.gov to make a difference for the public.</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Introduction by:</em><br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/staff/RushingReece.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Reece Rushing</font></strong></a>, Director of Government Reform, Center for American Progress</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Panel 1: Developing an Open Government Plan</em><br><strong>Norm Eisen</strong>, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform<br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/HarperJim.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Jim Harper</font></strong></a>, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute<br>
<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/WonderlichJohn.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">John Wonderlich</font></strong></a>, Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Moderated by:</em><br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/McDermottPatrice.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Patrice McDermott</font></strong></a>, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Panel 2: Citizen Access to Government Information</em><br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/GoldbergKevin.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Kevin Goldberg</font></strong></a>, counsel, American Society of News Editors (ASNE)<br>
<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/NisbetMiriam.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Miriam Nisbet</font></strong></a>, Director, Office of Government Information Services (OGIS)<br>
<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/SloanMelanie.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Melanie Sloan</font></strong></a>, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)<br>
<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/PustayMelanieAnn.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Melanie Pustay</font></strong></a>, Director, Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Information Policy (OIP)</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Moderated by:</em><br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/McDermottPatrice.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Patrice McDermott</font></strong></a>, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org</p>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Panel 3: Effects of Government Transparency on the Public</em><br><strong>Laura Beavers</strong>, National KIDS COUNT Coordinator, Annie E. Casey Foundation<br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/GundersenEric.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Eric Gundersen</font></strong></a>, President and co-founder, Development Seed<br>
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<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><em>Moderated by:</em><br><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/inf/MoultonSean.html"><strong><font color="#ff7700">Sean Moulton</font></strong></a>, Director of Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch.</p>
<p><em>A light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.</em></p>
<h4 style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">RSVP</h4>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><strong><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.americanprogress.org');" href="http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/03/sunshine.html/rsvp"><font color="#ff7700">Click here to RSVP for this event</font></a></strong><br>
For more information, call 202-682-1611</p>
<h4 style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">Location</h4>
<p style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">Center for American Progress<br>1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor<br>Washington, DC 20005<br>Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center</p>
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