Since Hurricane Katrina hit there has been slow, steady, frustrating progress with regard to recovery. It would be interesting to establish a website that shows the public where we are going with regard to recovery. The site could describe some of the following: Accountability: who is responsable for what. Where is the federal government responsable? Where are the state governments responsable? Where are the localities responsable? Which states or localities are seeing more progress? What is working? What isn't working? Where are there grey areas of responsability between different entities working on recovery. Are the states and feds overlapping? Are overlapping actions causing slowness or non-response? Are some things working better? How and where is the private or not-for profit sector impacting the recovery? Are there parts of recovery that are still in debate? ie. should all or just parts of New Orleans be rebuilt? Where are the roadblocks. How can they get overcome? It would be great to allow the public to see the state of recovery as it affects so many areas, such as relocating people, rebuilding, resettling people, recovery of infrastructure, whether infrastructure is being improved or not. Are certain areas or regions doing better? Why is that? Can their experiences be shared with the areas that are doing worse? What do you think?
Sounds like it might be good...here are a few things though... Where is the federal government responsable? ->They arn't, no one responded to the denver blizzard because its not their responsibility... Where are the state governments responsable? Where are the localities responsable? -> for everything else, including providing beer for this guy and all the other bums in N.O.
The Federal government has a large role as they themselves acknowledge: http://www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/programs/gc_1157649340100.shtm Now where are things working better, where are they working worse. Where are beaurocrats slowing progress? Where is there indecision on how to proceed? Where are the examples of best progress and can they be conveyed to areas where progress is slow? Make the whole picture transparent and visible to the public. If some orgs are doing a lousy job they will be widely and publicly shamed. Rather than keep the process confusing it would open the progress to better scrutiny. Orgs or govt.s that are making less progress will be revealed. Similarly success stories might be conveyed to other regions or sectors. Basically, a huge conglomerate like GE works this way, only internally with information flowing to the top, monitoring of success and failures, and an ability to find success stories and an effort to spread those examples elsewhere.