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Note: Not all agencies answered this question consistently. Some agencies that have high-
level polices for the entire agency (but allow operating units to have their own guidelines),
answered "yes" to this question, while other agencies with a similar structure answered "no."
THEMES:
While there wasn't complete consistency in the way agencies answered this question, four
types of governance structure were identified based on comments from the open-ended
descriptions.
Centralized governance, with centralized oversight: Four of the major agencies (17%)
appeared to have centralized governance. Two of these agencies provided comments that
illustrated a centralized governance structure that includes centralized oversight and
reporting. Two additional agencies stated that they had centralized governance and simply
provided links to their policies, so it's difficult to determine whether the governance also
included oversight.
44 Department of Justice... establishes policy... relating to accessibility, navigability, privacy,
social media, FOIA, and security. The department requires all component ClOs to certify
quarterly that their websites meet these requirements and that their content that is available
to the public meets high standards for information quality. "
Department of Justice
44 Commerce has a wide diversity of missions and agency-wide Web standards are challenging
to orchestrate...
The Commerce Web Advisory Council (WAC) provides recommendations to improve the
management and use of the DOC Web presence... The WAC reviews and periodically
updates existing DOC Web policies, developing new policies when necessary; reviews and
recommends decisions on requests for new top-level domains to the DOC CIO; develops
skills, knowledge, best practices, ideas, and solutions for Web developers and content
managers; ensures that DOC Web sites are in compliance with Web policies set forth by the
DOC and the OMB; and supports FISMA compliance reporting.
- Department of Commerce
Centralized policies, with decentralized implementation: Five of the major agencies
(21%) reported that they have centralized policies in place. These policies tend to be general
or high-level governance and are enforced by the operating units. Most of these agenciesPage I 28
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.gov Reform Task Force. State of the Federal Web Report, text, 2011; Washington DC. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98137/m1/29/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.