Obama's CIO Launches Data.gov
President Obama's federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra has launched Data.gov. In March, he announced he was working on the Web site intended to "democratize data" by giving the public raw feeds of information from a range of agencies. Kundra, who previously served as the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, said the site will build on successes like the National Institutes of Health's publication of Human Genome Project data and the Defense Department's release of satellite data. The former revolutionized personalized medicine, while the latter led to the commercialization of GPS devices, he said at a government IT summit. "We need to make sure that all that data that's not private, that's not restricted for national security, can be made public," Kundra said.
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