Open Government Plan Self Evaluation

Department of the Treasury

Rating Scale:

Red (R) – plan does not satisfy the requirement  

Yellow (Y) – plan partially satisfies the requirement  

Green (G) – plan fully satisfies the requirement

N/A ‐ not applicable because agency does not engage in that activity or area

 

Overall Rating G Treasury identified areas that needed improvement in our Plan and engaged

public reviewers for feedback.  These changes are reflected in version 2 of the

Plan released in May 2010.  The incorporation of this feedback has improved

Treasury’s Plan and enabled Treasury to reach GREEN on all evaluation criteria.

Formulating the Plan G Treasury utilized a multidisciplinary approach to the formulation of our plan,

including public consultation and feedback, and identifying means for continued

public engagement.  Treasury also published our Plan in both PDF and HTML

formats.   Treasury excels at establishing and implementing a robust governance

structure to build a sustainable open government effort across the Department.

Transparency

Strategic Action Plan

G Treasury identifies the process by which high value information not yet

available to the public will be identified, including a target of identifying and

publishing a minimum of three new datasets or information reports quarterly.  

Links are provided to Treasury’s records schedules that are currently posted on

the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website.  Contact

information is provided for Treasury’s records management program as well.  

Treasury excels at identifying areas of improvement in FOIA processing and is

actively engaged in an end‐to‐end process re‐engineering review.  Treasury

excels at proactively providing a significant amount of data to the public

regarding financial stability and Recovery Act activities.

Participation G Treasury ‘s Plan identifies concrete steps we will take to revise our current

practices to increase opportunities for public participation in and feedback on

the agency’s core mission activities, including proposed changes to internal

management and administrative policies to improve participation.  We describe

and provide links to websites for the public to engage in existing participatory

processes.

Collaboration G Treasury’s Plan describes examples of existing prizes and challenges in use as

well as descriptions of potential new challenges to encourage innovation in

operations.  Current and potential collaboration efforts are described in the

revised version including citizen input via Regulations.gov.  Treasury excels at

developing educational materials for employees on transparency and open

government, and in making these tools available to other agencies at no cost,

and the revised Plan includes multiple examples of these efforts.   

Flagship Initiative G Treasury’s Plan includes an expanded description of the flagship initiative

including how the public can participate in moving the electronic delivery of

services forward.  Also included are descriptions of how the improvements to

transparency, participation and/or collaboration will be measured, a description

of how the initiative will be sustained, and where there is room for

improvement.