透明和开放政府备忘录
致行政部门和机构首长的备忘录
主题：透明度和开放政府
我领导下的政府正在致力打造一个前所未有的开放的政府。我们将共同努力，确保公众的信任，并建立透明制度、公众参与、与合作。我们的开放程度将加强民主和促进政府的工作效率和有效性。
政府应该是透明的。透明度，促进问责制，为公民提供政府在做什么事情的信息。联邦政府所拥有的信息是一种全民所有的资产。我领导下的政府会采取适当行动，按照法律和政策，迅速公布信息以便公众可以很容易找到并使用政府信息。行政部门和机构应利用新技术尽快地把他们的业务和信息决策在网路上发布，让公众查阅。行政部门和机构也应征求公众意见，以确定什么是公众最需要的信息。
政府应该是参与的。提高公众参可促进政府的工作效力和提高其决策的质量。知识是分散在社会的各个角落里，如果公职人员能获得这些分散的知识，将大大受益。行政部门和机构应向公众提供更多的机会让他们参与政府决策，使得政府能受益于公众的集体专业知识和信息。行政部门和机构还应该征求公众有关我们如何加强和改善公众参与政府的机会的意见。
政府应合作。合作有利于促进公众积极参与政府的工作。行政部门和机构应使用创新的工具、方法和制度，以自己，在各级政府部门之间，与非营利性组织、企业、个人、私营组织之间展开合作。行政部门和机构应征求公反馈来评估和改善他们的协作方式和水平以确定新的合作机会。
我指示首席技术官与管理和预算办公室（the Office of Management and Budget）主任和后勤管理署长协作，并通过有关的行政机关的协调，在120天内，制定《开放政府指令》。该《指令》将由管理和预算办公室主任发布，指示各行政部门和机构采取具体行动来落实本备忘录中提出的原则。个部门和机构应执行《开放政府指令》。
本备忘录无意、而且也没有创建任何权利、利益、实质性或程序性的法律与美国、其政府部门、机构或实体、以及其职员、雇员或代理人、或任何其他人对立。
本备忘录应在《联邦公报》上公布。
巴拉克 奥巴马
原文：
Transparency and Open Government
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.
Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.
Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.
I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.
This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.
BARACK OBAMA