Open government
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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 -
National Security Archive survey reveals agencies are not reporting accurate information about 10-year backlog to the Justice Department. NSA found agencies are falling well short of the Obama administration\'s mandate to improve Freedom of Information Act requests.
July 07, 2011 -
OMB Watch and 30 other open-gov groups are asking Congress to restore funding to the E-Government Fund.
June 13, 2011 -
OMB detailed its plans for using the $8 million E-Government Fund in a letter to Sen. Tom Carper. The administration will shut down two projects and reduce the functionalities of the others.
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.
May 17, 2011 -
OMB\'s Jeff Zients told Senate lawmakers that his office has held 250 meetings to discuss agency reorganization ideas. Zients also said the lack of funding for e-government programs will slow the advancement of transparency websites.
May 11, 2011 -
Martha Dorris, deputy associate administrator of the Office of Citizen Services at the General Services Administration, explains how her agency has used e-gov initiatives to improve the customer experience.
April 26, 2011 -
The Sunlight Foundation is creating the Save the Data to fight cuts to open government websites.
April 19, 2011 -
Congress slashed funds to open government websites. Will these cuts impact the way feds\' do their jobs?
April 18, 2011 -
OIRA issues its second memo since the Plain Writing Act became law detailing deadlines and training requirements.
April 14, 2011 -
The agreement between the White House and Congressional leaders to fund the government through the remainder of 2011 would strip the E-Government fund of more than three quarters of its dollars. The fund, managed by the General Services Administration, pays for several of the Obama Administration\'s government transparency websites.
April 12, 2011 -
Open government proponents are calling for more transparency, and they are taking that message to the streets.
April 06, 2011 -
Lawmakers included $17 million in the one-week bill to keep the government open. This is still short of the $35 million the administration requested, but it will help keep some of the open governments running.
April 05, 2011 -
Several sites, including Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and the FEDRamp cloud efforts, could be shut down in the next two months if the administration doesn\'t get more money under the E-government fund. In all, nine sites are on the list to be discontinued by July 30 if OMB doesn\'t find money to keep it going. Experts say OMB has several ways to keep the sites up, including pass-the-hat among agencies.
March 31, 2011 -
You’re familiar with a lot of the open government projects at the federal level. You have sites like Recovery.gov, which tracks stimulus spending, and Data.gov. That site keeps tabs on various projects that agencies are…
March 25, 2011