Tech Daily Dose: Obama CIO To Unveil Transparency Tool http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/06/obama-cio-to-unveil-transparen.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2009 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:56 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Obama CIO To Unveil Transparency Tool MayorAdrianFenty_VivekKundra_1.jpgOn Tuesday, White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and White House New Media Director Macon Phillips will unveil an Internet-based interactive dashboard that will make available in a single location details about every major information technology project pursued by the federal government. The big reveal will take place at the Personal Democracy Forum's annual conference in New York City. The Web site will let the public see each initiative's goals, schedule, cost outlays, key personnel, contractors employed, and where the effort stands in real time, Kundra has said. He launched a similar program as chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, where he worked before joining the administration. The plan is aligned with legislation introduced earlier this year by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Federal Financial Management Subcommittee Chairman Thomas Carper, D-Del., which called for a Web site to be updated quarterly with the price, schedule and performance details of major federal projects. Read more about the initiative in a recent CongressDaily story here and check in Tuesday for more details.

]]> http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/06/obama-cio-to-unveil-transparen.php?rss=1 http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/06/obama-cio-to-unveil-transparen.php?rss=1 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:56 GMT Dan responded on June 30, 09 03:03 AM <div class="ad" style="float:right;margin: 0px, 0, 10, 10;"> <h6>Advertisement</h6> <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=techdailydose;series=techdailydose;medium=rss;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=techdailydose;series=techdailydose;medium=rss;tile=2;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt=""></a> </div> Does the US have so much money to burn on yet another project.  Transparency for what?  Does it have to be online so it can be transparent?  Why isn't the CIO and the government focused on enabling technologies and services for businesses (small to large) to help them create opportunities rather than create more jobs for massive infrastructure services that will be scrapped in the next administration.  Why is someone like this even put into charge to run projects of this nature?  

When will this country start buliding for the future instead of spending yet more resources on managing the past?  Build labs, make it easier to setup a business, pay taxes, get connected to the web, use public buildings for incubators, help businesses with information, spend money on projects that are small and focused on generating state and national level opportunities and revenue for companies and as default for the ever growing deficit.

Stop this nonsense already.

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