Comments on: Wiki budgets, bureaucrats, and a lost opportunity for engagement http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/28/wikis-budgets-bureaucrats-and-a-lost-opportunity-for-engagement/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Moving From Me To We.com » Blog Archive » How We Find Pork in the Federal Budget http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/28/wikis-budgets-bureaucrats-and-a-lost-opportunity-for-engagement/comment-page-1/#comment-9736 Moving From Me To We.com » Blog Archive » How We Find Pork in the Federal Budget Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:18:20 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/28/wikis-budgets-bureaucrats-and-a-lost-opportunity-for-engagement/#comment-9736 [...] For once, the White House House is striking back against Congress in a way that serves our public interest. Equally surprising, they (or, more accurately the Office of Management and Budget) is using a social media tool to shame the politicians by showing the pork-barrel projects they are sending back to their districts. As Stephen Barr of the Washington Post reports, OMB is using a wiki to track earmarks in the federal budget. Earmarking is the way members of Congress send pork (funding for pet projects) back home. (As Anthony Williams notes, “Citizens can already view earmark data on Many Eyes thanks to the Sunlight Foundation and some clever visualization technology provided by IBM Alphaworks” - yet it seems to be hard to keep up-to-date.) [...] [...] For once, the White House House is striking back against Congress in a way that serves our public interest. Equally surprising, they (or, more accurately the Office of Management and Budget) is using a social media tool to shame the politicians by showing the pork-barrel projects they are sending back to their districts. As Stephen Barr of the Washington Post reports, OMB is using a wiki to track earmarks in the federal budget. Earmarking is the way members of Congress send pork (funding for pet projects) back home. (As Anthony Williams notes, “Citizens can already view earmark data on Many Eyes thanks to the Sunlight Foundation and some clever visualization technology provided by IBM Alphaworks” – yet it seems to be hard to keep up-to-date.) [...]

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