Tag Archives: Open Government Plan

The Department of Health and Human Services has introduced its fourth Open Government Plan that aims to make government more transparent to the public as well as discover new ways to collaborate and partner with the department’s stakeholders. HHS Acting Deputy Secretary Mary Wakefield wrote in a blog post published Thursday …

The General Services Administration has launched a new effort to support data standardization and data federation systems across federal and local government agencies and also promote open and interconnected digital government. GSA said Thursday U.S. Data Federation will build on efforts of Data.gov and utilize case studies that demonstrate unified and coherent data architectures …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has expanded its research web portal to include additional peer-reviewed publications, other research materials and open source software from three DARPA offices. Research from the Biological Technologies Office, Defense Sciences Office and Information Innovation Office are now available through the DARPA Open Catalog as part …

The Office of Science and Technology Policy has published a draft roadmap aiming to incorporate open government principles into three key projects in the innovation area. OSTP’s open government plan includes strategies to promote transparency, encourage public participation and facilitate collaboration during the next two years, according to Monday blog …

Federal agencies need to do more to encourage public participation and measure the impact of public participation on agency decisions, an industry report says. The IBM Center for the Business of Government released its 70-page report Monday, reviewing federal agency plans for open government. Most agency plans did not fully …

Aneesh Chopra, the nation’s chief technology officer, asked for public feedback in a White house blog post earlier this month on increasing transparency in government. Many respondents asked questions regarding the Open Government Plan, leading Chopra to respond with another blog post Monday. The Open Government Plan is part of …

The U.S. Department of Defense will soon be taking steps to make the department more transparent and data more readily available to the public. Yesterday, April 8, 2010, the DOD released their Open Government Plan detailing the efforts. “Improved transparency can enable the public to better understand goals and activities …