Good government is about competence, leadership and fairness to provide a government "of, by and for the people", a government representing all the people not just for the supporters of a party in the majority nor for special interests.
To this end, Of, By and For supports and promotes:
- an open government with a commitment to public involvement and decision-making and
- keeping the public informed about government actions around key issues
- so that the people can provide public input, take action and ensure accountability.
The Of, By and For website allows people to post material (minutes, charters, reports, ...) and to provide their own commentary about topics under consideration by government entities and about the entities themselves. Topics get a more thorough public airing and materials and viewpoints are more widely available to others. Anyone can participate by commenting on the postings and signing up to follow topics by area of interest or by tracking comments to a post. You can sign up to be a guest author (“beat reporters”) to post new topics, cover new entities and generate original posts with material, links and opinions.
Of, By and For is a personal project by William Neuhauser.
Mission
Increasing the transparency of government and broadening the people’s knowledge of government actions to ensure effectiveness for and accountability to, the people. We do that by organizing information and viewpoints to make it easier to understand issues so they can to act on them to improve the effective and appropriate delivery of government services to We the People.
Our Name
Of, By and For takes its name from a famous line in President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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