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Subject: [ICAC] e-Gov Panel and Cocktail Reception Invite Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:48:52 -0400 From: Tim Lordan <tim@netcaucus.org> Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Members: Please join us for a panel discussion on "Can the Internet Transform Federal Rulemaking?" on Thursday, October 16 in Longworth 1300. The panel will start at 3:30 and will be followed by an outdoor cocktail reception on the Longworth Portico overlooking the Capitol. While the target audience for our Congressional events has always been Hill staff, more and more federal government staff have started attending our Hill and conference policy events. So, we have partnered with one of the leading associations of federal chief information officers to host a Congressional briefing in e-Rulemaking. This event is timely because members of a working committee are releasing their recommendations on how Congress and the next Administration can transform federal rulemaking. Members of that committee will present their recommendations on the panel with feedback from the EPA CIO who has shepherded the federal e-Rulemaking process. More details below (including important RSVP information). We hope you can attend. The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee cordially invites you to ... Can the Internet Transform Federal Rulemaking? Hosted in Conjunction with AFFIRM (Association For Federal Information Resources Management) and The Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:30 - 5:00 pm Panel Discussion 5:00 to 7:00 Cocktail Reception on Longworth Portico Longworth House Office Building, Room 1300 Please join us for a fascinating discussion on how the Internet could transform federal rulemaking processes in ways that improve the quality and oversight of regulations, promote citizen participation, and ultimately save taxpayer dollars. The panel of experts will debate how the Internet can make rulemaking better - for the public and the government itself - and what Congress can do to make this happen. This discussion is extremely timely since all Executive agencies have now joined the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS), the government-wide online rulemaking system created through the six-year long "e-Rulemaking Initiative." Now, experts from The Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking are recommending that Congress and the new Administration make several fundamental changes to help federal e-rulemaking progress to the next level. Members of this Committee will present their new recommendations during the October 16 panel. The panelists include: - Dan Chenok, Pragmatics Inc. - Cynthia Farina, Cornell University Law School - Sally Katzen, University of Michigan School of Law - John Moses, Environmental Protection Agency (invited) More panelists will be announced shortly. Please send RSVPs to <email obscured> <mailto:rsvp@netcaucus.org>. For more information visit http://www.netcaucus.org . This educational briefing is hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC), part of a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. The ICAC is a private sector organization comprised of public interest groups, trade associations, non-profits, and corporations. More information on the ICAC is available at www.netcaucus.org <http://www.netcaucus.org>.
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