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GRIDLOCKED: The World Economic Forum’s latest Global Information Technology Report for 2016 ranks the U.S. fifth behind Singapore, Finland, Sweden and Norway in a global index of countries. What’s holding the U.S. back? WEF pointed to “an unpredictable and unreliable political environment and low government commitment.” [READ MORE]
POIA: On Thursday, Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., reintroduced the Public Online Information Act (POIA) as H.R. 5839. Sunlight has been a supporter of POIA since 2010, when Israel, along with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., first introduced the transparency legislation. If enacted, the bill would enshrine into law the simple, transformative principle that in the 21st century, public means online. [READ MORE]
CC @OPENGOV: The guidance the White House issued yesterday for federal agencies to update their open government plans is overdue but welcome. It asks the right questions. Yet to be determined: what agencies will answer by the Sept. 16 deadline. Corinna Zarek, the deputy United States chief technology officer for open government, has asked the public for open government success stories in the White House blog post introducing the guidance. She requested that you send them to the Open Government discussion group, email [email protected] or tweet them and tag @OpenGov. Zarek also encouraged the public to share ideas that agencies should include in their Open Government Plans directly with those agencies or to share them with the White House using those channels. We hope you will do so! [READ MORE]
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