Deadline for Federal Agencies to Post Data Sets Approaches

January 14, 2010

This morning Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra participated in an online discussion on the Obama Administration’s open government achievements during its first year in office. Mostly, Aneesh reiterated the same talking points he made in his recent Fox Business interview (summarized here) . Of note, however, was his highlighting the fact that, according to [...]

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Summarizing the goals of the Open Government Initiative

January 13, 2010

White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra talked to Fox Business correspondent Shibani Joshi at the 2010 International CES conference. Aneesh discussed the Open Government Initiative and said the initiative is the result of the President’s “three basic philosophies” on open government: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Opening access to government processes and data will [...]

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Sunlight Labs posts Open Watcher to track (Agency Name).gov/Open pages

January 11, 2010

The Open Government Initiative requires federal agencies to post an “(Agency Name).gov/Open” page that describes their respective plan for meeting the mandates of the initiative. According the the initiative timeline, each agency should post an “/Open” page by February 6, 2010. Sunlight Labs, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, has posted Open Watcher, a site [...]

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USDA, Dept. of Commerce release Broadband Match

January 8, 2010

The USDA’s Rural Utilities Service and The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration have released an online service called BroadbandMatch which aims to “help applicants for Recovery Act broadband grants find potential partners with whom to apply.” Being that I don’t represent an organization seeking a broadband grant, I can’t register at the [...]

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Phase III Wrap-Up « OSTP Blog

January 8, 2010

On January 1, 2010 the Office of Science and Technology Policy opened Phase Three of an open forum asking “scientists, primary and secondary publishers, librarians, universities, researchers, students, and the public to help us [OSTP] understand when and how research articles – funded by taxpayers but with value added by scholarly publishers – should be [...]

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DOL wants your help identifying the best job search tools

January 6, 2010

Today the Department of Labor posted its “Tools for America’s Job Seekers Challenge.” The challenge is hosted at IdeaScale, a crowdsourcing site that allows user to view entries and vote on them.The idea is to encourage the public to evaluate the best job search tools available and identify the most useful. A number of agencies [...]

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Your Voice Matters to USA.gov…

January 5, 2010

In response to the Open Government Initiative, I would anticipate seeing more government blogs seeking and accepting comments. That is a valid (and perhaps welcome) response, but it remains to be seen if it is beneficial in any meaningful way. USA.gov has gone live with Your Voice Matters, which they describe as, “an online dialog [...]

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