Open Government Initiative Blog

As part of the ongoing implementation of the Open Government Plans, Cabinet departments and other major agencies evaluate version 1.0 of their Plans against the requirements of the Open Government Directive.

The Open Government Plans released yesterday by departments and agencies throughout the Federal Government are full of examples of projects that are already driving an unprecedented level of transparency, participation and collaboration.

Federal departments and agencies are releasing their Open Government Plans today, marking yet another step in the Administration's commitment to openness and transparency.

As part of his commitment to transparency, President Obama ordered that White House visitor records be released. Today, the White House releases more records, bringing the total number of records released over the quarter million mark.

United States CIO Vivek Kundra travels beyond the Beltway to learn more about innovative technologies that can improve government services and drive progress and productivity.

Now through March 19th, the American people can make a difference by providing feedback on the development of each Federal Agency’s open government plan, including ideas for how to make the agency more effective and efficient and suggestions for data that should be published online.

Dan Pfeiffer discusses the new open government pages across government.

Leading experts in the fields of gaming and technology came together in a workshop sponsored by OSTP and the Department of Agriculture to help guide the development of an initiative to create fun learning applications to motivate children and their parent to eat healthy and be active.

Yesterday, Federal agencies answered the President’s call by democratizing hundreds of high-value datasets on every aspect of government operations. While this is meaningful for the technology community and transparency advocates who have been working on this issue for years, the data released will have direct impact on the daily lives of the American people. Here are three examples to consider.

The public has a new trove of government data at its fingertips -- thanks to agencies throughout the Federal Government answering the Open Government Directive's call to make available at least three new, high-value data sets.

Labor Secretary Solis talks about a new website that brings together more than 600 online job search and career advancement tools.

All three phases of the Public Access Policy Forum are now open for comment through January 21st.

CTO Aneesh Chopra discusses some of the exciting innovationns at CES.

OSTP is launching Phase Three of our Public Access Policy Forum, asking scientists, primary and secondary publishers, librarians, universities, researchers, students, and the public to help us understand when and how research articles should be made freely available on the internet.