# Change.gov

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2008-11-07

society

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In a heartening display of speed and preparedness, the Obama transition team rolled out [Change.gov](http://change.gov) a day after the election.  This is the kind of foresight that we need and was sorely missing over the last 8 years.  It is a simple site for now that lays out the agenda for the incoming administration.  Importantly though it already sounds a key theme of citizen responsibility and service.

> President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

We, the people, are the number 1 resource that the country has and getting everyone to contribute will be [critical](http://continuations.com/post/57922851/excited-on-election-day).  It was great to hear that theme in Obama’s speech on the night of the election and to see it emerging now during the transition.  [Change.gov](http://change.gov) already has a section for citizens to share their stories and vision for the country.  While cynics will surely decry this as a meaningles social media trick, I believe that giving folks a voice is an important step in turning fear and worry into engagement and action.

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*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/changegov)*