About the Strategy

On May 23, 2012, the President issued a directive entitled “Building a 21st Century Digital Government”. It launched a comprehensive Digital Government Strategy (pdf/html5) aimed at delivering better digital services to the American people. The strategy builds on several initiatives, including Executive Order 13571, Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service, and Executive Order 13576, Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government.

The strategy lays out actions in a 12-month roadmap and has three main objectives:

• Enable the American people and an increasingly mobile workforce to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device.
• Ensure that as the government adjusts to this new digital world, we seize the opportunity to procure and manage devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways.
• Unlock the power of government data to spur innovation across our Nation and improve the quality of services for the American people.

This website, WhiteHouse.gov/DigitalGov, will be updated over the next year to track progress in implementing the strategy.

• Read U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel’s blog post announcing the strategy launch
• Read U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel’s blog post at the one-month mark
• Read U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel's blog post at the three-month mark
• Read U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel and U.S. CTO Todd Park's blog post at the twelve-month mark
  • Strategy Milestones
  • Deliverables
  • Agency APIs
  • Agency Mobile Apps / Mobile Sites