In documents circulating among federal agencies and released to the public on Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget has laid out plans to move Data.gov out of "beta" phase and into "government-wide execution," as federal CIO Vivek Kundra put it... Full Article at TechWeb

Open Government Directive Gets Its Unveiling Written by Nicole Ferraro 12/9/2009 Post a comment no ratings Login to Rate DISCUSS Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Email This TWEET THIS Transparency, participation, and collaboration: These are the values being... Full Article at Internet Evolution

Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released Dec. 8 the White House's open government directive for federal agencies, directing all agencies to make data available to the public and develop its own... Full Article at eWeek

The Obama administration released a long-awaited openness directive Tuesday, ordering ornery Federal agencies to comply with its government sunshine promises, including creating interactive open-government web pages and publishing three new raw data... Full Article at Wired

Like Jim, I watched this morning’s Open Government Initiative launch with an eyebrow reflexively arcing skyward. Full Article at Cato@Liberty

New policy calls for agencies to release data, launch open government Web sites Within 45 days, agencies must make a minimum of three high-value data sets available to the public, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said today during a Web... Full Article at Federal Computer Week | FCW

So we finally have our hands on the long-awaited Open Government Directive. Full Article at techPresident

The Open Government Directive and the Progress Report to the American People lay out how the Obama Administration is breaking down long-standing barriers between the federal government and the people it serves. Full Article at Jack & Jill Politics

CTO Aneesh Chopra and CIO Vivek Kundra are schedule to announce directive during an 11 a.m. Web chat Doug Beizer is a staff writer for Federal Computer Week. Full Article at Federal Computer Week | FCW

U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra will launch the Obama administrations comprehensive Open Government Plan, furthering the Presidents commitment to increasing transparency and accountability in... Full Article at The Alexandria Town Talk

At 11am, the Obama Adminisitration’s in house senior techies—Aneesh Chopra, the Chief Technology Officer, and Vivek Kundra, the Chief Information Officer—will be presenting the administration’s Open Government Plan. Full Article at Columbia Journalism Review

The White House, at long last, has a release date for the transparency directive that President Obama announced on his first day at work: Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 11:00 a.m. Keep your eyes on Nextgov for more details. Full Article at GovExec.com

Some state CIOs are evaluating cloud computing as the way to provide IT services to state agencies and other groups of users, including local governments and schools. It makes sense for states to go this route, but there's a right way and a wrong way. Full Article at Information Week

The Verari data center container housing the NASA Nebula cloud computing application arrives at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. What do you get when you combine cloud computing and data center containers? Full Article at Data Center Knowledge

Forced to do a ton more with a lot less, the federal government will invest billions over the next two fiscal years to upgrade the nation's information systems using the low-cost, high-availability cloud-based applications used by its private sector... Full Article at Internet.com

The U.S. government's cloud computing portal, Apps.gov, may be a breakthrough in fast, efficient, and transparent IT acquisition, but that doesn't mean it's cheap. Full Article at Information Week

The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years, an expensive and wasteful trend that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says he wants to stop. Full Article at NextGov

The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years, an expensive and wasteful trend that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says he wants to stop. Full Article at TechWeb

The White House will introduce new tools and metrics for measuring and managing the federal government's cybersecurity efforts, federal CIO Vivek Kundra said in testimony to Congress. Full Article at NextGov