Center for Effective Government Announces Launch
The former OMB Watch is now the Center for Effective Government (www.foreffectivegov.org).
A change to reflect a broader expertise on government effectiveness in general.
From the post:
The Center for Effective Government will continue to offer expert analysis, in-depth reports, and news updates on the issues it has been known for in the past. Specifically, the organization will:
- Analyze federal tax and spending choices and advocate for progressive revenue options and transparency in federal spending;
- Defend and improve national standards and safeguards and the regulatory systems that produce and enforce them;
- Expose undue special interest influence in federal policymaking and advocate for open government reforms that ensure public officials put the public interest first; and
- Encourage more active citizen engagement in our democracy by ensuring people have access to easy-to-understand, contextualized, meaningful public information and understand how they can participate in public policy decision making processes.
If you have been running a topic map in this area, reflect the name change to the OMB Watch topic.
Beyond simple semantic impedance, which is always present, government is replete with examples of intentional impedance if not outright deception.
A fertile field for topic map practitioners!