Coalition Partner Transition Papers

OpenTheGovernment.org and our partners issued several papers recommending how the Obama Administration and the new Congress can increase openness and accountability.

• Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-To-Know Agenda: Recommendations to President-Elect Obama and Congress. A collaboratively written government transparency report

   

• Center for American Progress Action Fund
  Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President
  

   

• Center for Democracy and Technology
  A Platform to Keep the Internet Open, Innovative and Free
  
  • Government Transparency and Accountability
  • Using the Internet to Build Participatory Democracy
  
  

   

• Center for Progressive Reform
  By the Stroke of a Pen: Seven Executive Orders to Launch the Obama Agenda
  

   

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  • A Privacy Agenda For The New Administration
  • An Intellectual Property Rights Agenda For The New Administration
  • A Government Transparency Agenda For The New Administration
    

     

• Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
  The Presidential Transition and Secrecy

   

• Government Accountability Project (GAP)
  Federal Whistleblower Protections

   

• National Security Archive worked with OpenTheGovernment.org and other coalition partners to craft the following policy proposals.
  
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • classification system
  • presidential records
  
  

   

• OpenTheGovernment.org
  Managing the Public's Records for Accountability and History

   

• Project on Government Oversight
  POGO's Recommended Good Government Reforms for Presidential Transition Teams

   

• Sunlight Foundation
  Open Letter to the Obama Administration on How to Shine Sunlight