Taking into account the substantial improvements made in technology through to this 21st century, we can easily say the US Government is long overdue in bringing its people a transparent look into civil service dealings.
President Barack Obama appears set to reverse the tide of secrecy and ambiguity in how the US has does business — starting with — Recovery.gov.
Obama had this to say:
We’ll launch an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.
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‘Print is dead’ — This cliche phrase echos through the print industry, and has now for a few years. There is no doubt that print [specifically newsprint] could follow the way of the dinosaur — a more likely scenario now with a worldwide recession in full swing.
With a large number of media organizations facing threats and ultimatums to drop print altogether, will print eventually disappear? Not likely. For some, the news is grim. For others, their star is rising.
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Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, reached out to the world last year and asked for volunteer donations in support of his massive online encyclopedia operations. He did this with hopes of funding 6 million USD for their 2009 fiscal operations. They made it. And it was no small feat [for a non-profit] considering costly requirements like these-
- Nearly three million USD in projected technology costs
- Almost two million USD in projected accounting and administration costs
- Salary for 23 folks on staff
- 300+ servers on the farm
- And more
One of the most respectable moves a company can make in gaining outside interest and support is to display their operations as transparent as possible. Wikipedia [does] and did a great job conveying their transparency through info pages like their annual fiscal plan document or their frank Q&A page.
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