he quality of its decisions. Thus, executive departments and agencies have offered opportunities to citizens should to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information.
Collaboration actively engages citizens in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies use innovative tools, methodologies, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with non-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector.
Web 2.0 practices are changing public services now. Governments are providing citizens with extraordinary tools that inform them and others with similar interests. For example, Texas Websites Improve Accountability describes the state's three initiatives aimed at improving government accounting, spending and transparency.
Georgia's Commitment to Customer Service and Good Government outlines the information and key documents about how the state of Georgia's spends tax dollars and other revenues.
Online application for improving transparency include Google Earth, EveryBlock, Apps for Democracy and OpenStreetMap that demonstrates the potential of leveraging government
data as a public good. The public has benefited from the technologies built around the data,
and the use of the data has not removed value from the government.