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Summary:

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Overview

Openness is a mindset and culture. It creates opportunities for exponential government innovation. By embracing the values of collaboration, participation and transparency, government can instill trust and foster better and faster solutions to small and big problems.

The problem

Governments that isolate processes and decision-making from the public limit the opportunity to truly create government with, for and by the people. By taking an insular approach to service, we don’t leverage the collective wisdom and energy of the public. The opaqueness leads to ambivalence and mistrust.

The solution

A government culture of ‘open by default’ that publicly shares its information and processes and actively solicits feedback. By creating mechanisms that encourage the public to engage early and often, we develop opportunities for increased engagement in the context of trust and a sense of betterment for the entire community...."

Link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SnYoP-hVNQnUUdnTKTNIZr5RQQ3Zfb-c_5sLWjP3oR4/edit

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Tags:

oa.new oa.government oa.uk oa.usa

Date tagged:

10/22/2021, 16:12

Date published:

10/22/2021, 12:13