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• Reviewing Last Week’s National Dialogue on Recovery IT

  By Greg Elin on 05/06/09 @ 2:14 pm | 0 Comments

  The following is an excerpt from what’s been going on inside the head of Greg Elin, the retiring Chief Evangelist for the Sunlight Foundation, as he contemplates the Recovery’s Board week-long virtual brainstorming event TheNationalDialogue.org which concluded Sunday.

  Moderator: The Recovery Board has launched a web site for what it bills as a National Dialogue on Recovery IT hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration. The virtual event began on Monday, April 27 and ended Sunday, May 3. To discuss how the event went are my two guests who have been following Recovery.gov. My first guest is happy “Greg :-)” who believes the Web changes everything and end-users made the conversation fruitful. Presenting a different view is grumpy “Greg :-(” who knows a bureaucracy when he sees one and wonders how this was a dialogue if no Recovery Board IT people participated.
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