I Need YOU (Says Recovery.gov)

As the head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board (or RAT Board for short) Earl Devaney has an enormous — and, frankly, quite possibly close to impossible — task of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse of those federal dollars as they’re spent from coast to coast, from Alaska to Hawaii. Tough job.

And so he’s turned to the Interwebs. All this week, NationalDialogue.org is hosting an online forum for the submission and evaluation of ideas for quickly building a Recovery.gov that both keeps tabs on the spending of recovery funds and creates a forum in which the public can help to spot bad behavior. In the community forum, anyone can submit an oversight idea and rate others’ ideas on a scale of one to five stars. Comments are also welcomed.

Citizen watchdogs, unite! at Recovery.gov throughout this week. Watch the vid for the full spiel (from two guys I’d never want to meet in a dark alley!):