Short-sighted slashing in Washington…
Government transparency advocates warn that spending cuts in the federal budget passed last week could close the door on President Obama’s ambitious “open government” goals and hamper efforts to open up federal agencies to closer public scrutiny.
The budget deal slashes the Electronic Government Fund from a proposed $35 million to $8 million — not nearly enough to keep certain government Web sites operating at current levels, officials said.
The cuts could spell the end of Data.gov, a compilation of hundreds of thousands of government data sets; theIT Dashboard, an ambitious project to track how much the federal government spends on information technology investments; and USASpending.gov, which tracks federal contract spending and was established by a 2006 law sponsored by Obama when he was a senator.
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Filed under: 7. Electronic records, 8. Officials' perspectives | Tagged: IT Dashboard, Open government, USASpending.gov |
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