Third, while it is important to get feedback on the home page, it is even more important to get commentary on the underlying information obtained in order to achieve the transparency and accountability described in the President's December memo. Privacy and other design criteria. The site should have a button to help the public identify the site's privacy and other operating policies. Plan for future costs. The current construct of FirstGov is not worthy of large expenditures.
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However, if FirstGov is to be a robust portal growing over time, it will cost money and will require experimentation as well as deployment of tools and services. We believe that an agency, such as GSA, must put a line item in their budget request specific to maintain FirstGov. At the same time, we think a nonprofit organization should be established, possibly the Federal Search Foundation created by Brewer, that experiments with improved access to government information. For example, FirstGov does little to help the public reach databases in the government. The Brewer search engine will provide access to electronic documents and records if they are permitted to be spidered.