I am so pleased to see the Department of Transportation and Data.gov being so incredibly responsive to the concerns we... View Article
Continue readingThe Case of the Missing DOT Data… Solved?
Yesterday I wrote about my investigation into whether the Department of Transportation had put their data on Data.gov as promised months... View Article
Continue readingThe Case of the Missing DOT Data
The Department of Transportation has been a leader in complying with recentopen government initiatives, so I decided to use the agency... View Article
Continue readingGAO Progress Report for E-Gov Fund
The Government Accountability Office concluded that major projects funded through the E-Gov Fund “could potentially lead to benefits including cost... View Article
Continue readingSenate Approps Shortchange E-Gov
After the huge fight over the House’s support for Electronic Government Fund, which pays for many important transparency programs like... View Article
Continue readingE-Gov Funding Up for Consideration by Senate Approps on Wednesday
This Wednesday, the Senate Appropriations Committee will markup legislation that appropriates funding for the electronic government fund. The e-gov fund... View Article
Continue readingKundra on e-gov cuts: no project unaffected
“No project will go unaffected,” said federal CIO Vivek Kundra in a letter on the e-gov funding cuts sent to... View Article
Continue readingSenator Carper Writes To Vivek Kundra About E-Gov Cut Implications
Calling the cuts to the e-gov fund potentially “penny-wise and pound-foolish,” Delaware Senator Tom Carper wrote yesterday to federal CIO... View Article
Continue readingE-Gov Reauthorization in Doubt
Andrew Noyes writing in Congress Daily notes that the e-government reauthorization (referring to the original e-gov act of 2002) is... View Article
Continue readingSenate E-Gov Hearing
I'm about to head to a hearing from the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which, as we learned yesterday amidst a flurry of activity on the Open House Project Google Group, will be viewable, both live and archived, from the Senate committee's website.
This is exciting also because of the content of the hearing, where we'll be hearing from a panel of e-government and technology experts, including CDT's Ari Schwartz, Jimmy Wales of Wikia, JL Needham of Google, and Karen Evans of the Office of Management and Budget.
We expect the hearing to deal with both executive branch e-government implementation, and to also touch on some degree of legislative branch transparency issues, as a committee staffer stopped by yesterday to explain. We'll likely be hearing more about CRS reports, and an initiative regarding THOMAS upgrades, both priorities from the Open House Project report.
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