Must viewing for all techPresident and Personal Democracy Forum readers:

With just hours to go before the Obama transition finishes and the new government is born, the Technology Innovation and Government Reform group (i.e. TIGR) is featured on the Change.gov website. (Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a list of its members.)

Three rising stars of open and collaborative government are featured in the video: Beth Noveck, author of the forthcoming book Wiki Government and longtime pioneer in this arena (she and her partners convinced the US Patent Office to embrace user-generated content with their Peer-to-Patent program); Vivek Kundra, Washington DC's pathbreaking Chief Technology Officer (check out his "Apps for Democracy" contest); and Andrew Mclaughlin, head of global public policy and government affairs for Google.

The video is only a few minutes long, but it gives a useful glimpse at the TIGR group's work and hints a broader changes to come under the Obama Administration. Noveck talks about Change.gov's "Citizen's Briefing Book" project as a prime example of new ways of involving the public in bringing valuable ideas to the attention of the president. Kundra talks about the power of open data to spur economic growth and government efficiency. And Mclaughlin offers a tantalizing vision of new troves of government data being mashed up in new ways to help citizens understand better what their government is (and ought to be) doing.