transparency
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The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board late Friday posted a response to all the questions about its $9.5 million award for the redesign of Recovery.gov. The big question: * Isn’t $9.5 million a lot of…
July 10, 2009 -
It has been all of about one day since the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — yes, the RAT Board — and Smartronix, the company that was just awarded a $9.5 million deal to (re)build…
July 10, 2009 -
Giving credit where credit is due right up front — Aliya Sternstein over at NextGov posts a great photo of President Obama checking out the new federal IT dashboard, which was officially opened to the…
July 09, 2009 -
I’ve been working throughout the day to catch up on what I missed over the past week while I was away with some time off. (I often post while I’m away. It is somewhat surprising…
July 07, 2009 -
Transparency is catching with citizens as well as agencies, and the administration is anxious to tell its story. Last week Federal CIO Vivek Kundra sat down for an internet-only discussion of transparency with citizens from…
July 06, 2009 -
Transparency gives additional clout to make technology projects perform. Tool replaces OMB watch lists and makes information more interactive.
July 01, 2009 -
The FDA has formed a transparency task force to help the public receive information in a quicker, more user-friendly way. Consumers recently gathered to attend the task force’s first public meeting. Doctor Joshua Sharfstein is…
June 30, 2009 -
Often, it is so easy to forget that the U.S. government is not alone. I often think the “ahead” or “behind” distinctions are fairly superfluous — different organizations are in different places in their evolutions…
June 24, 2009 -
The White House today will launch the third and final part of the Obama transparency and openness initiative where the White House CTO’s office will invite the public to “collaborate on crafting constructive proposals to…
June 22, 2009 -
Editor’s note: To those coming from the Future Fed series that I will be doing on WTOP and Federal News Radio 1500 AM — if this is your first time to the DorobekInsider — welcome.…
June 15, 2009 -
I mentioned that I was going to be on DC’s NewsChannel 8’s Federal News Tonight last night — talking dashboards, no less. (To be honest, I was a bit concerned the topic was a bit…
June 10, 2009 -
I’ll be on DC’s NewsChannel 8 in the 7:30p ET half-hour — their Federal News Tonight program — and I’ll be talking about dashboards. Some of the issues we’ll be covering: * What is a…
June 09, 2009 -
Web 2.0 purists would argue that a blog isn’t a blog if it doesn’t accept comments. If that is true, the DorobekInsider has re-entered the bloggosphere. Yes, we are now accepting comments. Way back on…
June 02, 2009 -
I arrived last night here in Norfolk, VA for the ACT/IAC’s Management of Change 2009 conference. They have a pretty good agenda lined up — including Clay Shirky, a New York University professor and author…
June 01, 2009 -
I mentioned earlier that I was on DC’s NewsChannel 8 tonight — their Federal News Tonight program — talking about transparency. You can read the “liner notes” here. But they have posted the video of…
May 26, 2009