Aneesh Chopra news from FierceGovernmentIT

In advance of the United Nation's General Assembly, world leaders congregated Sept. 20 at New York City's Waldorf Astoria hotel to formally launch a new initiative called the Open Government Read more...

Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra downplayed the cost of open government programs, June 2. "The marginal cost of initiatives like Blue Button are negligible. I mean, not even rounding Read more...

The federal government and a private sector financial association signed a Dec. 6 agreement with the goal of speeding the commercialization of cybersecurity research, say White House officials. The Read more...

On August 12, the Office of Management Budget updated the Open Government Dashboard, a transparency assessment tool applied to 29 federal agencies. According to the scorecard, agencies are doing a Read more...

Agencies shouldn't initiate new development spending on federal financial management systems worth more than $20 million until the Office of Management and Budget has reviewed spending plans, states Read more...

Only three federal agencies produced open government plans that fully satisfy the open government directive, according to an initial White House review of the plans based on agency self assessments. Read more...

The Congressional Research Service has come down hard on the role of the federal chief technology officer. The job is poorly defined, the group said in a recent report, and Congress may want to act Read more...

One of the most remarkable achievements in the year since President Obama took office is the amazing use of new media to get the message out. The White House blog this week is looking at Obama's Read more...

The federal government, with its new emphasis on using technology, its billions of dollars to spend in the high-tech arena and its regulatory clout, drew a good deal of attention last week at the Read more...

The federal government's chief technology officer says that new standards for health information technology systems need to be kept simple. The comments from Aneesh Chopra came before an advisory Read more...