Vice President Gore will kick off the second annual Reinvention Revolution Conference today with a town hall meeting with federal employees across the nation. The meeting will be based in Bethesda, Md. and broadcast via satellite to viewing locations in other parts of the country.
The Vice President will address how reinvention will shape the second Clinton administration.
"The era of big government is over, and the reinvention revolution has begun," Gore said before the conference. "There are islands of excellence across the federal government, but we still have a lot of work to do. This conference will help identify problems and frame solutions for a 21st century government that is effective, efficient and responsive to the American people."
The three-day conference on the campus of the National Institutes of Health will address "Strategies and Tactics for the 21st Century," including partnerships, performance-based organizations, strategic planning under the Government Performance and Results Act and leveraging technology.
Besides the Vice President, speakers will include Office of Management and Budget Director Franklin Raines, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and dozens of the leading reformers in the federal government. More than 700 federal executives, managers and employees are expected to attend.
Government Executive is co-sponsoring the conference along with the National Performance Review, the Council for Excellence in Government, George Washington University and the Brookings Institution.
To bring the reinvention revolution to our readers' desktops, we will be covering the conference here on govexec.com. Each day our correspondents will be dispatched to several of the conference sessions, including Vice President Gore's town hall meeting, to bring you virtual coverage of the ideas and initiatives being shaped at the most important reinvention gathering of the year.
In addition, we will profile some of the frontline federal workers whose efforts to reform their agencies are making a difference in the way government provides services to the public.
Check back each morning this week to find out how Gore, much of the Cabinet, and other people working to reinvent the federal government will affect the way you manage your agency for the next four years.
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