Egovernment Sites Starting to Take Transparency Seriously

摘要

In his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln expressed the hope that he envisioned for our government: "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." History, however, has repeatedly demonstrated a steady loss of faith in the U.S. federal government due to actual and alleged corruption, cover-ups, scandals, fiscal mismanagement, economic downfalls, fraud, abuse, waste, and more. As the citizenry grows accustomed to immediate access to global information via smartphones, social media apps, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, blogs, videos, and streaming media, it has been difficult for bureaucrats to assimilate. At least one company has been keeping tabs on the situation, though.