4.1: Flagship Initiative: Regulation Room

Partner with CeRI in a pilot project to discover the best ways of using Web 2.0 and social networking technologies in the rulemaking process.

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To support the President’s Open Government initiative, the DOT has partnered with CeRI in a pilot project, Regulation Room, to discover the best ways of using Web 2.0 and social networking technologies to: • More effectively alert the public that rulemaking is occurring in areas of interest to them; • Increase public understanding of each proposed rule and the rulemaking process; and • Help the public formulate more effective individual and collaborative input to the DOT. Over the course of several rulemaking proposals, CeRI will use different Web technologies and approaches to try to increase public understanding and participation regarding rulemaking, work with the DOT to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques, and report their findings and conclusions on the most effective use of Web 2.0 and social networking technologies in this area to the DOT and the public. Figure 11 illustrates how CeRI encourages participation in rulemaking through the FMCSA proposed texting rule that began on March 31, 2010.

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• CeRI

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