America’s first chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched the new spending dashboard on his website Data.gov Tuesday, which should bring transparency to government-funded information technology projects. Kundra, who previously demo’d the platform at Wired’s first-ever business conference on June 15th, announced it again Tuesday at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in Manhattan.
The purpose of the spending dashboard is accountability. Viewers will be able to track the progress of government-funded IT progress. More than that, they’ll be able to point fingers. There’s a little thumbnail picture of the CIO and contact information next to each project’s page. People who are unsatisfied with the way things are moving can write in.
At this stage, Kundra and his team have thrown the data up, and hoped that America will work out the kinks. “This is version 1.0, we’ve launched it in beta and we’re going to continue to innovate and ad more and more features.” One feature that he emphasized was a feedback loop, so that the site won’t just be about exposure, but also creating a dialogue.
We’ll have to send them some of our truly nutball commenters.
Another tangible evidence of Obama being accountable to the citizens he serves.
Compare this to the policies of “Don’t both me, I’m in a bunker – Dick Cheney”.
This is just a smoke screen. This site will not show exactly what’s going on. The data will be manipulated.
This web site is costing U.S. citizens a lot of money.
Also the website under Firefox has some formatting issues.
Peace.
#3 – update that copy of FFX 2.0 on your eMachine.
#3 Actually it’s not so much. The gov uses GoDaddy.com and it costs $13 a year.
What a moron.
#1 Sure Dallas. I wonder if he is going to add the database of people that visit the West Wing that he has so far refused to release?
4 years to build a beta?
I’m sure the data won’t look much different than the TPS reports Madoff use to submit to the SEC.
Yes, it’s a waste of taxpayer $$. I can stretch the truth for $20.00 if that’s what you want.
#6 NOPE. It’s a spending dashboard as indicated, not an online visitors list.
Is anyone else sick of every single web app being “beta” like, forever?
What a friggin cop out. “Can’t get ur email? Well, it’s BETA!”
I don’t trust this guy. Is he the one who was caught shoplifting and then the whole payola scandal of contractors in DC? http://gawker.com/tag/vivek-kundra/
I’m waiting for lostfreedomandliberty.gov
Which will explain how big government can do things better and cheaper than you can.
All your social security numbers are belong to us
Garbage in garbage out.
# 14 RS – well said
Adding to the fail potential is that beta is pre-version 1.0
That doesn’t inspire confidence our National CIO might not understand the difference between version numbers in the world of IT. Almost sounds like a Bushism – we went into production beta.