4: Open Government Performance Measures

Evaluate the effectiveness of the policies and practices developed pursuant to the Open Government Directive on a regular basis

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Additional specific measures for a given open government initiative may focus on volume of participation and improvements in program results as an outcome of the initiative (e.g., improved timeliness, quality, cost of an agency service, and other related outcomes.). Aggregate measures also can be identified. Treasury commits to evaluate the effectiveness of the policies and practices developed pursuant to the Open Government Directive on a regular basis. Below are specific measures already underway at Treasury: * Require reports on the number of data sets released per quarter * Identify stakeholder outreach efforts * Calculate reduction in FOIA requests * Identify cost savings resulting from open government initiatives Treasury has increased the amount of information publicly available to track activities in support of the economic recovery effort resulting in multiple opportunities for the proactive disclosure of information of high interest to the public, for example, on the www.financialstability.gov www.financialstability.gov website. Since the issuance of OMB (M-10-06) guidance in December 2009, Treasury's Office of Financial Stability has posted the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Transaction report to the website in both PDF and XLSX formats to support the requirement for data open formats. TIGTA has obviated the need for the public to request sensitive but unclassified audit reports by proactively decontrolling and publishing these reports on their website in a timely manner. The BEP proactively posts monthly and annual production figures including notes series, serial numbers, and quantities for each currency denomination.

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