Open Data/Transparency
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A law Congress passed in April to ban congressional members and federal workers from profiting on non-public information places unnecessary reporting burdens on senior executives and make them vulnerable to identity theft.
June 19, 2012 -
Mayer Brown LLP partner Marcia Madsen will talk about what government managers and contractors need to know when it comes to data collection and transparency. June 5, 2012(Encore presentation June 12, 2012)
June 05, 2012 -
Todd Park, chief technology officer of the United States, will talk about Datapalooza, and solutions to federal healthcare IT problems. May 29, 2012
May 30, 2012 -
The House-passed DATA Act creates a five-member commission to oversee government transparency.
April 26, 2012 -
Niall Brennan, director for Policy and the Data Analytics Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will talk about how to process large volumes of data. April 17, 2012
April 17, 2012 -
Statement of Administration Policy and letter to Senate recommends keeping the E-Government Fund separate from the Federal Citizen Services Fund. The Sunlight Foundation and OMBWatch also want lawmakers to fully fund the E-Government Fund.
November 16, 2011 -
Ed DeSeve was the Special Advisor to the President for Recovery Implementation and is now the President of the Global Public Leadership Institute. He writes about the lessons learned in a new report by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
October 31, 2011 -
Sukumar Ganapati, associate professor of public administration at Florida International University, examined some of the best practices of government dashboards in a new report.
October 17, 2011 -
The Food and Drug Administration wants the public to comment on eight draft proposals aimed at making the agency\'s enforcement data more \"accessible and user-friendly,\" according to a release.
October 03, 2011 -
One reason for cuts to the e-gov budget is agencies have failed to make a business case for open government projects, said Mark Forman, former e-gov administrator.
September 22, 2011 -
Katherine McFate is the president and CEO of OMB Watch.
September 21, 2011 -
President Barack Obama has proposed an open government plan that includes more streamlined responses to FOIA requests, digital record management, a revamped regulations.gov and new measures to promote public participation in government. He presented the plan at a meeting of the international Open Government Partnership in New York.
September 20, 2011 -
As federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra prepares to depart government for a Harvard fellowship, he provided a top-10 list of lessons learned in his last appearance before Congress.
July 15, 2011 -
A National Security Archive survey finds agencies are falling short of the Obama administration\'s order to improve response time for Freedom of Information Act requests.
July 07, 2011 -
Pretty soon you\'re going to see a lot less dot-gov websites that have been deemed unnecessary and out of date.
June 29, 2011
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