Government communications can drive beneficial change in information and communication opportunities and services. In current difficult economic circumstances, intelligent, vigorous leadership in government communications is particularly important. Carl Malamud can provide such leadership as Public Printer, as the head of the U.S. Government Printing Office. I enthusiastically endorse Carl Malamud for Public Printer, and I encourage everyone to do likewise.
Take a look at what Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have already accomplished. One of Malamud’s early projects was getting U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filings freely available online through the Edgar system in the mid-1990s. With a lot more financial information publicly available we might have avoided at least some of our current financial sector problems. Another notable project was to upload Smithsonian Institution images to flickr. The Library of Congress subsequently uploaded more than 4,900 photos to flickr and received an enthusiastic public response.
The Internet creates the possibility of making important public works available to everyone. Yes We Scan!
