Obama's Change.org: Citizen's Briefing Book

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-01-12 13:30:00 UTC
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The Obama Administration's latest awesome step for a more open and citizen engaged administration is the launching of the "Citizen's Briefing Book." The Citizen's Briefing Book gives anyone the ability to post an idea and then vote and comment on others. Pretty simply, the ideas with the most votes and comments will become the core of the Citizen's Briefing Book, which will be delivered to President-elect Obama after he is sworn in.

Obviously, this is pretty exciting to us over at Change.org. The idea is clearly similar to the core idea behind the Ideas for Change in America campaign. We started Ideas to show that every American has a stake in improving our country and improving our world, and to make sure that everyone has the tools to work together toward a better future.

The exciting thing about the Ideas for Change campaign is that we'll be working to find nonprofits and other stakeholders to launch campaigns around the winning ideas, making sure that the voice of average citizens stays on the public agenda. Head over to www.change.org/ideas to vote for your top ten!

Kudos to the Obama team for being so on top of the game so early. I'm excited about how entrepreneurial - maybe even socially entrepreneurial, you might say? - they transition team has been thus far, and can't wait to see what's next.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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