Q: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Sentence 1: The individuals and organizations with whom we spoke did not identify any potentially beneficial ITbased public participation applications that had not been adopted by at least one of the regulatory agencies that we examined. Sentence 2: The individuals we interviewed tried hard to find beneficial IT-based public participation applications that weren't used.
A:
government