Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s One-Year Anniversary
I am writing to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s arrival at HHS! It has been a truly historic year by any measure. And it marks just the beginning of what is unfolding as a remarkable era in the life of HHS. In fact, we are marking the anniversary not by looking back, but by looking forward: check out the declaration of the Secretary’s Strategic Initiatives and Key Inter-Agency Collaborations.
This declaration gives all of us in the Open Government movement even more reason to celebrate, as Secretary Sebelius has designated “Foster Open Government” as a key Inter-Agency Collaboration! As the Secretary says, “This is the perfect time to be rolling out our Open Government Plan.” As HHS undertakes the most ambitious agenda in its history, we are going to be leveraging the power of transparency, participation, and collaboration to help us be of maximum help to the American people. As we’ve said many times and say in our Plan: Open Government is not “one more thing to do.” Open Government is a change in HOW government does what it’s supposed to do. Publishing information for the public, engaging citizens in our work, and collaborating across government and with the world outside government are going to be essential to maximizing the success of health reform implementation and each of the Secretary’s other key initiatives and priorities.
We very much look forward to your continued comments on our Open Government Plan – more on that in this space soon!
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