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Government Tech Innovation Would Come to a Screeching Halt Under New Budget Proposals

Funding for projects like Data.gov and mobile apps for agencies is in danger of being almost fully slashed.READ»

The Curious Case of USASpending.gov's Missing $1.3 Trillion

Watchdog group The Sunlight Foundation analyzed 10 million lines of data--and discovered trillions of dollars missing from our federal spending database.READ»

Track Federal Spending on New, $8 Million IT Homepage, Dashboard and App

Vivek Kundra, the first CIO of the U.S., today relaunched his IT Dashboard, a Web site (and now mobile app) that enables anyone to view the finest details of the federal government's $80 billion IT spending. Kundra told Politico ...READ»

White House Unveils USASpending.gov to Track IT Spending

The U.S. government launched USASpending.gov, a Web site to track billions of dollars in government information technology spending. It's an official effort to be more accountable. The dashboard was unveiled at the ...READ»

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Barack Obama Makes Internet History

As President-Elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech, there was a particularly powerful moment for me. "A world was connected by our own science and imagination." With those words, he made plain that the days of politicians seeing the Internet as simply "a series of tubes" are over.READ»