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Data.gov reaches across the pond
The British have launched their own public version of Data.gov, making a wide range of national statistics available and increasing government transparency, modeled on the U.S. version. White House... Read more...
Kundra: A fast and dramatic start
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra was just named InformationWeek's Chief of the Year, a remarkable accomplishment for a government official who has only been on the job for nine months. In that short time, he... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Data.gov gets a starring role
Data.gov, now in its beta phase, is moving onto "government-wide execution." The timing couldn't be better, as the Obama administration issued a memo on Tuesday telling federal agencies to post more... Read more...
Agencies must post data online, pronto
President Obama's transparency agenda just got a jolt of caffeine. The White House released a series of mandates on Tuesday requiring federal agencies to post three "high-value" data sets on... Read more...
It's a challenge to make Gov 2.0 accessible to disabled
As the government uses the web to place more information online and increase transparency, it also has an obligation to ensure accessibility to the disabled under the federal law known as Section... Read more...
Fed websites stumble over Rehabilitation Act
Federal agencies have a mixed record when it comes to making sure their web pages are accessible to the disabled and meet the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, Federal Computer... Read more...
Data.gov - 10 Hot Sites for Government Transparency
There are no longer any reasons to complain about the lack of access to government data. The new government site, Data.gov, will give you every dataset you have ever dreamed about. Information is... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: GCN IT achievement award winners named
Government Computer News highlights 11 IT projects that are winners of this year's GCN Award for Agency IT Achievement. The list includes Data.gov, the FBI's National Data Exchange, Digital... Read more...
Obama's transparency spreads its wings
The Obama administration is serious about transparency. Just take these two latest examples of evidence that government will be open and accessible to the public for all kinds of information. On... Read more...
Time for Gov 2.0: It's all about the platform
Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media, and the man who coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago, argues that the government must think broadly about use of the new... Read more...
