by Andrea Di Maio | May 10, 2013 | 5 Comments
On May 9, after a longer-than-expected preparation, the Open Data Policy announced as part of the US Digital Government Strategy has been issued together with an executive order signed by President Obama about Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information. As one reads the order, browses through the first few pages [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data, US CIO, US CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | September 1, 2012 | 4 Comments
I am just back from my holidays, which I spent with my family in Australia. I had a great time, also because I decided to resist the temptation of doing any work-related activity unless it was extremely urgent for a client-facing deadline (but a bit of luck and good planning made these very few and [...]
Category: e-government open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: US CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | August 1, 2012 | Comments Off
I recently read an interesting article on Nextgov about how the new US Government CTO, Todd Park, is trying to inject innovation in a notoriously slow federal environment by bringing on board people from the private sector who can offer a different perspective and trigger what Park calls a “lean startup mode in government”. As [...]
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Category: open government data Tags: innovation, US CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | April 23, 2009 | 9 Comments
Starting on April 27th, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and the OMB in partnership with the National Academy of Public Administration will run a national online dialogue to engage leading information technology (IT) vendors, thinkers, and consumers in answering the following question: What ideas, tools, and approaches can make Recovery.gov a place where all [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: ARRA, crowdsourcing, Obama, recovery.gov, US CTO
