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Transparency groups call for increased E-Gov funding
OMB Watch and 30 other open-gov groups are asking Congress to restore funding to the E-Government Fund.
Tags: Vivek Kundra , Tom Carper , OMB , open government , Data.gov , IT Dashboard , USASpending.gov , Performance.gov , OMB Watch , technology , Gov 2.0
Budget cuts shutter two open gov sites, others impacted
OMB detailed its plans for using the $8 million E-Government Fund in a letter to Sen. Tom Carper. The administration will shut down two projects and reduce the functionalities of the others.
Tags: technology , Vivek Kundra , Tom Carper , OMB , GSA , open government , Data.gov , IT Dashboard , USASpending.gov , Performance.gov , FedSpace , Citizens Services Dashboard , Jason Miller
Agency reorganization plan on track for June deadline
OMB's Jeff Zients told Senate lawmakers that his office has held 250 meetings to discuss agency reorganization ideas. Zients also said the lack of funding for e-government programs will slow the advancement of transparency websites.
Tags: reorganization , GPRA , Jeff Zients , Tom Carper , OMB , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , technology , management , open government , Jason Miller
Carper wants to know plans for open gov sites
The Delaware Democratic senator wrote a letter to federal CIO Vivek Kundra asking for more details about which transparency websites will continue and which will go dark. Congress reduced the E-Government Fund by 76 percent in 2011forcing some near-term decisions.
Tags: technology , Tom Carper , Vivek Kundra , Darrell Issa , OMB , Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committ , Oversight and Government Reform Committee , transparency , budget cuts , Jason Miller
Issa pledges to keep transparency sites online
A senior Republican lawmaker is optimistic that the Obama administration's transparency websites can be kept online.
Tags: technology , Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , MB , transparency , openness , Jason Miller
Six-month budget slashes e-gov fund by 76 percent
The agreement between the White House and Congressional leaders to fund the government through the remainder of 2011 would strip the E-Government fund of more than three quarters of its dollars. The fund, managed by the General Services Administration, pays for several of the Obama Administration's government transparency websites.
Tags: technology , Congress , Vivek Kundra , David McClure , OMB , GSA , cloud computing , data center consolidation , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , open government , transparency , TechStat , Jared Serbu
House restores some e-gov funding in CR
Lawmakers included $17 million in the one-week bill to keep the government open. This is still short of the $35 million the administration requested, but it will help keep some of the open governments running.
Tags: technology , Jo Ann Emerson , Hal Rogers , Martha Johnson , House Appropriations Committee , GSA , OMB , open government , Jason Miller
OMB prepares for open gov sites to go dark in May
Several sites, including Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and the FEDRamp cloud efforts, could be shut down in the next two months if the administration doesn't get more money under the E-government fund. In all, nine sites are on the list to be discontinued by July 30 if OMB doesn't find money to keep it going. Experts say OMB has several ways to keep the sites up, including pass-the-hat among agencies.
Tags: technology , Vivek Kundra , OMB , GSA , Joseph Lieberman , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , House Appropriations Committee , Dan Chenok , IBM , Fred Corle , KGS Inc. , Daniel Schuman , Sunlight Foundation , open government , transparency , Jason Miller
