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POLL: Will cuts to e-gov fund impact your job?
Congress slashed funds to open government websites. Will these cuts impact the way feds' do their jobs?
Tags: E-Gov , transparency , technology , poll
OMB finalizes plain writing law implementation
OIRA issues its second memo since the Plain Writing Act became law detailing deadlines and training requirements.
Tags: management , Plain Writing Act , Cass Sunstein , OIRA , best practices , John Buckner
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 , E-Government Fund , transparency , TechStat , Jared Serbu
Event highlights open gov success
Open government proponents are calling for more transparency, and they are taking that message to the streets.
Tags: Sarah Millican , transparency , openness , In Depth
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 , E-Government Fund , 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 , E-Government Fund , transparency , Jason Miller
DoD, Energy lead in open source technology
OFSA conducted a survey to point out which departments and agencies were best using open source technologies.
Tags: OSFA , DoD , DoE , HHS , DHS , DOT , cloud , John Buckner
Public comments halt changes to vendor transparency rules
The Federal Acquisitions Regulations Councils have withdrawn their advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to change contractor transparency.
Tags: DoD , GSA , NASA contracting , FAR Councils , John Buckner
Open gov threatened by WikiLeaks
OpenTheGovernment.org has sent a letter to OMB calling for the continued protection of open government, even after WikiLeaks.
Tags: Patrice McDermott , OpenTheGovernment.org , transparency , WikiLeaks , Dorobek Insider , technology
Open gov: what works and what doesn't
Tags: Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , Gartner , Andrea Di Maio , Gov 2.0 , technology , OpenGovernment.org
