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White House plans review of all IT projects
Listen up, everyone. The boss is watching and reviewing every one of your federal information technology projects. Federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra disclosed last week that the White... Read more...
Next up: Kundra's cybersecurity dashboard
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is not standing still with the launch of the IT dashboard that shows where money is being spent on government IT. Instead, he's moving quickly toward cybersecurity, and plans... Read more...
DoD joins the open-source brigade
The Department of Defense is putting its considerable clout behind open-source software. In a recent memo to top military officials, deputy CIO David Wennergren outlined the importance of open-source... Read more...
White House embraces open source
The White House joined the rest of the online world this week in embracing open-source software. It's using open-source software called Drupal to manage and publish its content from the 2-year-old... Read more...
WhiteHouse.gov/Facebook/Twitter - 10 Hot Sites for Government Transparency
In the old days, the only way to find out what was happening at the White House was the hard way. But times have changed. There are many interesting avenues to see what the president and executive... Read more...
Agencies required to measure transparency results
The White House is getting ready to issue an order likely to focus every agency on results as they strive for transparency. Aliya Sternstein of nextgov.com reported on Monday that every agency will... Read more...
Cyber control: White House or DHS?
There is an ongoing and heated debate over who should be in charge of federal cybersecurity policy, a yet-to-be-named czar in the White House or the Department of Homeland Security that now has... 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...
SPOTLIGHT: 10 agencies with the most Facebook friends
Social networking is coming of age in the government. Federal Computer Week this week lists the top 10 agencies with the most Facebook fans. They include the White House Facebook, which has more than... Read more...
White House: Keep watch-list data a secret
The administration that has made transparency its top priority now wants to keep terrorist watch-list information a secret. An article in the Washington Post this week reports that the administration... Read more...
