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Since the process of opening government does not happen overnight, as part of its Plan, the Administration committed to support
and stimulate implementation of agency Open Government Plans. This commitment has been fulfilled in a variety of ways. First,
the Administration regularly convened the Interagency Open Government Working Group of agency open government representatives.
The Working Group served as a vehicle for collaborating with agencies to ensure they continued to implement their initial
open government plans. The Working Group also partnered with agencies as they worked to release a 2.0 version of their respective
open government plans, and all twenty-four Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act agencies revised their plans. During the course
of this process, White House officials met with representatives from every CFO Act agency to discuss implementation of their
open government plan, and to brainstorm ideas on initiatives for the second version of their plan. The White House also encouraged
agencies to meet with stakeholders before, during, and after they wrote their open government plan 2.0 in order to ensure
that the plans represented a mosaic of ideas and suggestions for making their agency as transparent, collaborative, and participatory
as possible. Agencies also benefitted from reaching out to civil society organizations outside the "beltway," such as critical
stakeholders on the state and local level. The White House will continue to work with agencies as they implement their open
government plans.
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Taking account of the views and perspectives of outside stakeholders, the White House will carefully monitor agency implementation
of the plans. As a result, agencies will improve their efforts to disclose information to the public and to make such disclosure
useful, identify new opportunities for public participation in agency decision-making, and solicit collaboration with those
outside government.
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