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A decade ago, the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) website received an award for the best website in federal government, but the largely static repository has steadily fallen over the years to become one of the worst.
FCC.gov reboots as an open government platform - O'Reilly Radar
“Everything Should Be an API,” Says FCC
The FCC is leading by example with its beta release of the FCC.gov website on Monday.
White House releases IT Dashboard as open source code - O'Reilly Radar
The White House has released the software code for its IT Dashboard and TechStat toolkit . The initiative was coordinated through Civic Commons , a code-sharing project incubated within Code for America that helps governments share technology for the public good, with support from OpenPlans . Civic Commons staff worked with REI Systems , the contractor that originally built the IT Dashboard for the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to prepare the code for release under an open source license.
The United States government has made its IT Dashboard, a cost-cutting tool for federal transparency, freely available for anyone, especially other governments, to use and customize. The IT Dashboard gives citizens important information on how the government uses tax money for technology initiatives across various agencies.
U.S. Government Open-Sources IT Dashboard to Help Cut Tech Costs
Budget Technopocalypse Deepens: Transparency Sites Will Go Dark In A Few Months - Sunlight Foundation
Federal News Radio has an interesting follow-up to my interview with them yesterday on the budget technopocalypse . I wrote last week that Data.gov, USASpending.gov, and other Obama tech innovations face virtual extinction because it appears that Congress will cut their collective budgets from $34m to $2m. We and many others are sending an open letter to congress in an effort to save these vital transparency programs.What happens to e-government if government shuts down? - O'Reilly Radar
As the government shutdown clock ticks inexorably forward, many people are wondering how much of government will continue to operate or, in a literal sense, stay online.
Data.gov et al. Budget Slashed by 75%
Federal government transparency programs, including data resource directory Data.gov , face across-the-board budget cuts by 75% in the latest version of the federal budget to emerge from Congressional negotiations. According to the Sunlight Foundation , an independent transparency watchdog organization, the "electronic government fund" faces cuts from a $34 million budget down to $8 million. We reported earlier this month that a Congressional proposal would cut the budget for programs including Data.gov, USASpending.gov, the federal cloud computing initiative and more.
Le service avait été annoncé en grande pompe par un Barack Obama qui avait fait de la transparence gouvernementale l'un de ses axes de campagne en 2008 : le site Data.gov , géré par la Maison Blanche, publie depuis plus de deux ans des données collectées par le gouvernement fédéral américain.
Des internautes américains tentent de sauver data.gov - LeMonde.fr
Data.gov in crisis: the open data movement is bigger than just one site | Nathan Yau | News | guardian.co.uk
About two years ago, Data.gov launched as a big step towards government transparency and accountability.Citizen engagement platforms grow in 2010
During the 2008 election, then Senator Barack Obama said that "the challenges we face today -- from saving our planet to ending poverty -- are simply too big for government to solve alone. We need all hands on deck."
In May 2009, the Obama administration started putting raw government data on the Web.
Sorting Through the Government Data Explosion - NYTimes.com
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