Government dashboards spreading

The federal government is in love with the dashboard, a handy way for the government and the public to keep track of projects large and small. Dashboards aren't a new idea. They've been used forever by the private sector to chart projects and milestones, keep an eye on progress and spot problems. But the dashboard came of age when the Obama administration came to town.

Now they are everywhere you look in the federal government. First there was the IT dashboard for big-ticket project tracking. Then came the Open Government Dashboard, the Department of Veterans Affairs' IT Dashboard and the latest, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs' dashboard.

USASpending.gov, the dashboard for government spending, is about to get a major face lift.

"There's an underlying architecture of dashboards in development, making sure on one hand that we're serving specific communities--for example, one about transportation, another about IT--and allowing you to slice, dice, integrate and even create your own dashboard as a widget that can be embedded in your own page," federal CIO Vivek Kundra tells InformationWeek.

For more on this handy tool:
- see this InformationWeek article

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