And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All ...
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Saved by 5 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-06-23
- Driessen on 2009-07-01 - Tags cio , informationarchitecture
- Hrheingold on 2009-06-28 - Tags public_sphere
- Takuya514 on 2009-06-27 - Tags Government2.0 , Data
- Rdatta on 2009-06-23 - Tags usa , government , privacy , internet , knowledge management
- Regisb on 2009-06-19 - Tags government2.0 , USA , obama , cio
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The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. Are you searching for a Food and Drug Administration report that used to be obtainable only through the Freedom of Information Act? Just a mouseclick away. Need National Institutes of Health studies and school testing scores? Click. Census data, nonclassified Defense Department specs, obscure Securities and Exchange Commission files, prison statistics? Click click. Click. Click.
The man in charge is the US government's first-ever chief information officer, Vivek Kundra. Previously CTO of the District of Columbia, Kundra, 34, knows that the move from airtight opacity to radical transparency won't be a cakewalk. Until now, the US government's default position has been: If you can't keep data secret, at least hide it on one of 24,000 federal Web sites, preferably in an incompatible or obsolete format.
The goal of Kundra's new Web site, Data.gov, is to create a place where all the information is easy to find, sort, download, and manipulate. He wants to put as much data out there as possible, then sit back and let the private sector come up with great ways to use it.
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