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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.
Katherine McFate is the president and CEO of OMB Watch.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty soon you\'re going to see a lot less dot-gov websites that have been deemed unnecessary and out of date.
Newscast stories heard on the June 21, 2011, edition of In Depth with Francis Rose.
Lawmakers want to merge the fund with GSA\'s Office of Citizen Services. Sam Rosen-Amy, a federal fiscal policy analyst for OMB Watch, said that may lead to reduction in services.
The bill includes $50 million for the General Services Administration\'s Office of Citizens and Innovative Technologies.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will not consider a bill aimed at better federal government transparency, according to Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
As agencies continue to work toward being more \'open and transparent,\' feds are always looking for better ways to communicate. We learn about a new option called SlideShare from the NNSA\'s Damien LaVera.
Dick Stapleton from HHS and Mark Pietrasanta from Aquilent join host John Gilroy to discuss best practices that federal agencies can use to engage citizens. May 24, 2011
In open government, dumping information on a website is useless if the users cannot quickly understand what the information means for them.
The White House says the order is all about transparency. But Senate Republicans say details in the draft aren\'t clear. And they\'re worried about an infringement of First Amendment rights, and how the donation information will be used at agencies.
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