Obama to release open government directive

President Obama's pledge of transparency is moving to a new level very shortly. In the next two weeks, he will release his Open Government Directive that will require federal agencies to outline specific actions they will take to be more open to the public.

It's taken longer than expected to develop the directive with federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services administrator, and the details are still unclear. But Chopra said at the Gov 2.0 Summit in September that the directive would outline steps that federal agencies need to take to "hardwire the capability" for transparent, collaborative, participatory government into their processes.

Among other things, agencies will be required to release more data in machine-readable formats for public consumption.

For more on the open government directive:
- see this InformationWeek article

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