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Socialsecurity.gov Redirects Traffic to Popular Services
Date: January 11, 2011Type: News
The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently unveiled the new socialsecurity.gov, part of the agency’s effort to create a frustration-free customer experience. Site visitorship in 2010 increased 50% over 2009, with about 11 million Americans now turning to the website for...
FY 2010 E-Government Act Reporting Instructions
Date: September 21, 2010Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
This memorandum from Vivek Kundra, U.S. CIO, provides instructions for agencies' annual E-Government reports as required by the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub. L. No. 107-347) (Act). The Act requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress a summary of the information...
Health Information Technology Guidance
Date: September 17, 2010Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
To maximize the benefits Health Information Technology (HIT) has to offer providers and patients, all Federal agencies should coordinate HIT investments around a shared set of policy and technology principles. The Federal HIT Task Force, convened in February 2010, is a forum in which to develop...
Public Sector Cloud Computing Case Study: Securities and Exchange Commission
Date: August 12, 2010Type: News
The Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) serves individual investors who complain to the SEC about investment fraud or the mishandling of their investments by securities professionals. The staff responds to a broad range of investor contacts through phones, email, web forms, and...
Improving the Accessibility of Government Information
Date: July 19, 2010Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
The President identified transparency, participation, and collaboration as the principles of an open government in his January 21, 2009, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, which requires that government information and data be accessible to all citizens. To ensure that persons with...
Guidance for Agency Use of Third-Party Websites and Applications, M-10-23
Date: June 25, 2010Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
This Memorandum requires Federal agencies to take specific steps to protect individual privacy whenever they use third-party websites and applications to engage with the public.
The purpose of this Memorandum is to help Federal agencies to protect privacy, consistent with law, whenever they...
Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies, M-10-22
Date: June 25, 2010Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
On January 21, 2009, the President issued a memorandum calling for the establishment of "a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration." The memorandum required an Open Government Directive to be issued by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),...
Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old
Date: May 21, 2010Type: Blog
One year ago, data.gov was born with 47 datasets of government information that was previously unavailable to the public. The thinking behind this was that this data belonged to the American people, and you should not only know this information, but also have the ability to use it. By tapping the...
An Initial Assessment of Open Government Plans
Date: April 27, 2010Type: Blog
As part of the ongoing implementation of the Open Government Plans, we have asked the Cabinet departments and other major agencies to work with us to evaluate version 1.0 of their Plans (or recent revisions) against the requirements of the Open Government Directive. The assessments show that we...
Open Government Directive, M-10-06
Date: December 08, 2009Type: Pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this file)
Abstract: In the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on January 21, 2009, the President instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue an Open Government Directive. Responding to that instruction, this memorandum is intended to direct executive...
Vivek Kundra Testimony on Data Driven Performance
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