Beth Noveck, former White House deputy chief technology officer and director of the Open Government Initiative, says the administration is on-track in its efforts to re-brand “open government,” as “good government. Blogging
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The 2009 Open Government Directive promised the feds would free the data. And, more than 2,000 datasets on everything from crime statistics to healthcare stats have been posted on Data.gov since the
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The chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said HUD made “significant improvements” in managing its IT investments last year. And along with touting his department’s success
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Late last year, federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra proclaimed 2011 “the year of civic participation.” Chopra made his comments at a forum marking the one-year anniversary of the Open Government Directive,
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2009, the first year of President Barack Obama’s tenure as chief executive, was all about building open government policies, federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra told Federal News Radio recently. 2010 was
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When three high-profile open-government supporters sat down for a live webcast on the one-year anniversary of the White House’s Open Government Directive to take questions from the public, it was clear, they
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In testimony Tuesday before the U.S. subcommittee on federal financial management, government information, federal services and international security, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra spoke about how the Obama administration’s Open Government
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has launched a new Open Government site, meeting President Obama’s December 8th, 2009 requirement that federal agencies establish a site within 60 days and publish their
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On Tuesday, December 8th, Vivek Kundra, federal CIO, and Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO, held a live webcast to announce the launch of the new Open Government Directive. Over the past few weeks,
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On Tuesday morning, at 11:00 a.m. eastern time, Vivek Kundra, federal CIO, and Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO, held a live web cast to announce the arrival of the new Open Government Directive.
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