Renewing Government: Recommendations to President-elect Obama
and the 111th Congress

As President-elect Obama’s transition team gets to work, OMB Watch has teamed with dozens of organizations
and individuals to provide key recommendations on government openness, reform of the regulatory process, and
government performance issues. Started well before the 2008 elections, the projects that produced these
recommendations brought together diverse groups of people to work on some of the most pressing problems and
concerns that will face Obama when he takes office in January 2009.

OMB Watch convened a group of hundreds of individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum
to put together recommendations on government openness, information, and other transparency issues. The
recommendations stress the need for the Obama administration and Congress to move the federal government’s
information disclosure and sharing policies and processes into the 21st century, which includes the efficient,
effective use of modern Internet technologies. The recommendations fall into three categories: National Security
and Secrecy; Usability of Information; and Creating a Government Environment for Transparency. The group has also
lifted up a number of the recommendations as issues the Obama administration should tackle during its first
100 days.(From OMB Watch’s website:)

Read the report here: 21st Century Right to Know Recommendations