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E-gov spending doesn't always return investment
The White House spent about $5 million in developing a social network for federal employees before canceling the project in May 2011 due to lack of funding, according to data from a Government
Devaney: Recipient reporting yields better data than agency reporting in transparency initiatives
Data reporting from federal-fund recipients is more accurate and less costly to report than if the data were gleaned from agencies, according to Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability
$8 million not enough for e-gov websites, says Kundra
Lower than expected congressional appropriations require the Office of Management and Budget to cancel two collaborative websites it had under development, says Vivek Kundra, the OMB administrator
OMB releases IT Dashboard, TechStat code amid program funding uncertainty
The Office of Management and Budget has released the open source software code behind the IT Dashboard . According to a March 31 OMB blog post from Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, the
Sunlight Foundation finds $1.3 trillion worth of inaccuracies in USASpending.gov
A government website meant to track federal spending is off by more than $1.3 trillion, says the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit watchdog. When the watchdog compared data posted online at
USAspending.gov will be updated with subaward data
Agencies must start collecting subaward data for inclusion into USAspending.gov by Oct. 1, according to a new Office of Management Budget memo signed by Jeffery Zients, the deputy director for
Open government plans week arrives
Agency open government plans will be unveiled this week. In a Dec 8, 2009 memo , Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag directed agencies to prepare and post online, by April 7, plans
SPOTLIGHT: Coming your way: A new improved USAspending.gov
USAspending.gov is the latest government website in line for a makeover. Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients announced last week that there will be a version 2.0 of the site soon that allows
USASpending.gov - 10 Hot Sites for Government Transparency
If you ever wanted to get deep in the weeds of information technology spending, we have a site for you. It's called USASpending.gov , and it is the home of the IT dashboard that provides
Obama hopes to reverse IT failures
The federal government's record on IT contracts for software and infrastructure has hardly been stellar, and in some cases, it has been downright disastrous. Some computer projects have been scrapped
