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White House unveils open-government dashboard
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02/09/10 12:04 PM ET
The White House's tech gurus today launched an Open Government Dashboard to track each agency's progress in opening up its data to share with citizens.
Via the White House blog, chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra and chief information officer Vivek Kundra described Version 1.0 of the dashboard, which will simply show what each agency has done so far. (And that's not much.)
But agencies' open government plans are due April 7. That's what Chopra calls "the next big step."
"The Plans present a special opportunity for the Dashboard to evolve over time and empower the public while spurring a race to the top amongst agencies," he said. "We are eager to seek your input in this process, so keep an eye out for opportunities to weigh in over the next two weeks."
The Dashboard will become more comprehensive as agencies meet the other deadlines. But metrics have not yet been established to measure agencies' actual progress.
Via the White House blog, chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra and chief information officer Vivek Kundra described Version 1.0 of the dashboard, which will simply show what each agency has done so far. (And that's not much.)
But agencies' open government plans are due April 7. That's what Chopra calls "the next big step."
"The Plans present a special opportunity for the Dashboard to evolve over time and empower the public while spurring a race to the top amongst agencies," he said. "We are eager to seek your input in this process, so keep an eye out for opportunities to weigh in over the next two weeks."
The Dashboard will become more comprehensive as agencies meet the other deadlines. But metrics have not yet been established to measure agencies' actual progress.
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