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New e-rulemaking site facilitates participation
By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 24, 2011. "Cynthia Farina would be the first to acknowledge that it is difficult to get members of the public engaged in a meaningful way in federal rulemaking. The topics are complex and technical, and people generally have limited time to review and analyze them...
One of the lessons she has learned is that using cool new technologies is not enough to draw people to visit a website and comment on proposed rules they might have a stake in, she said. Initiatives must also be designed to target specific audiences affected by the rules, she added..."
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- E-rulemaking gets a fresh push
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, October 24, 2011. "If you have been around Washington for a while, you probably noticed when the e-government agenda of the George W. Bush administration morphed into open-government initiatives under President Barack Obama. Despite some common themes, political reality has swept out the old and brought in the new. Yet if you look closely, those themes continue to intersect. E-rulemaking is a prime example. Starting in 2002, there has been a drive to put more rulemaking materials online and increase their accessibility on Regulations.gov, the central federal e-rulemaking portal. In the past three years, hubs of Gov 2.0 activity have developed to adopt new tools that encourage transparency, citizen participation and innovations in e-rulemaking..."
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