transparency
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In 2009, Recovery.gov was created as a way to follow the money being handed out through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Michael Wood, director of Recovery.gov, told Federal News Radio using the cloud has been a major contributing factor to the website’s success, starting with the redesign of Recovery.gov. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud was [...]
December 19, 2010 -
A bill passed by the Senate aims to increase government accountability by creating a performance officer at each agency.
December 16, 2010 -
The Recovery Board\'s Earl Devaney outlines the development of the oversight program for the Recovery Act funds.
December 15, 2010 -
CTO Aneesh Chopra said 2010 was the year of execution for the open government initiative.
December 14, 2010 -
Attorney John Mahoney explains the threats to security clearances if you access WikiLeaks.
December 14, 2010 -
Sunlight Foundation\'s John Wonderlich discusses what\'s worked and what hasn\'t one year into the Open Government Directive.
December 13, 2010 -
The Merit Systems Protection Board is well know for its workforce research studies, but how does it decide what to study? We learn more about it from MSPB\'s Laura Shugrue.
December 09, 2010 -
From the data management panel discussion, NOAA\'s Joseph Klimavicz discussed the agency\'s response during the Gulf Coast oil spill.
December 08, 2010 -
Treasury\'s Dan Tangherlini explains the reason behind the website relaunch and move to the cloud.
December 07, 2010 -
\"(P)erhaps the lesson of Wikileaks should be that the open air is less fearsome than we\'d thought. That should lead to less secrecy. After all, the only sure defense against leaks is transparency,\" says Prof. Jeff Jarvis. He joins us to talk about it.
December 07, 2010 -
Princeton computer scientist Harlan Yu explains why the judicial branch is struggling to be more transparent.
December 06, 2010 -
The BBC reports that Chinese officials orchestrated the hacking at Google earlier this year, according to WikiLeaks cables.
December 06, 2010 -
PEER claims a new directive for the agency that replaced MMS is diminishing scientific integrity by screening employees\' findings.
November 18, 2010 -
With the explosion of government data now online, the government will rely on \'data curators\' to help the public make sense of the information, The New York Times and O\'Reilly Radar report.
November 16, 2010 -
USA Today reports the public submitted 123,000 ideas to BP on how to stop the oil flow and clean up the spill.
November 15, 2010