I had a client a few years back named Onvia. Onvia provided better and more timely information than the federal government, regarding where stimulus d...
Politics seems to be in everything now. Whether it is your home loan, your school loan; even your reproductive rights or the right to bear arms. Belie...
A very small number of political leaders have ended up with startling control over the country's priorities, and the public has been left piecing together what is happening well after it's been decided.
By making government data available through E-Gov programs, public officials can then reach outside of government for creative answers to tough problems, which, in turn can save money.
This weekend, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. hosted the nation's first National Science Festival. For the thousands of kids, it was a valuable opportunity to become excited about potential careers in scientific discovery.
With the appointment of White House Counsel Bob Bauer and Steven Croley to the Domestic Policy Counsel, we have just lost an important fight over how the administration will handle the duties of 'ethics czar' post Norm Eisen's tenure.
Hunger is on the rise in America despite decades of government programs and private outreach. According to the most recent figures -- which are almost two years old -- over 49 million Americans suffer from food insecurity.
One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government's ...
Though the Obama administration required federal agencies to publish online at least three "high-value data sets," many of the data are obscure, old, or already publicly available.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.
Our government's embrace of the same web technologies that have radically improved productivity in the private sector represents a permanent and fundamental upgrade in the way our government functions.
The government cloud computing service rumored since late July is here, and companies are jumping at the chance to join Apps.gov, an "online storefron...