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Now Live: The Updated IT Dashboard
Date: March 06, 2012Type: Article
Now Live: The Updated IT Dashboard
Date: March 06, 2012Type: Blog
The Administration first launched the IT Dashboard back in 2009 as part of our effort to create a more transparent and open government. Today’s release builds on these efforts, bringing even greater transparency to IT investment performance and empowering CIOs to intervene in troubled projects...
IT Reform: Energy TechStat Examines Identity Program
Date: May 03, 2011Type: News
In an effort to improve the performance of one of the Department of Energy (DOE) major IT investments, an agency TechStat review was recently...
Open Sourcing the IT Dashboard & the TechStat Process
Date: March 31, 2011Type: Blog
We launched the IT Dashboard and the TechStat Accountability Sessions to improve IT transparency and accountability across the Federal Government. The Dashboard has helped us shine a light on IT projects, providing performance data to fuel TechStat reviews, which have led to over $3 billion in...
IT Reform: Agencies Hold First TechStat Sessions
Date: March 25, 2011Type: News
Agency-level TechStat sessions are currently under way, with 24 Federal CIO Council agencies on track to have held their first TechStat by March 31. As of March 25, 15 agencies have already held their first...
IT Reform: Results of Review Sessions
Date: March 22, 2011Type: News
In a White House “White Board” video released March 16, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra discusses how the
White Board: The IT Dashboard & the Value of Transparency
Date: March 16, 2011Type: Video
In this White House White Board, U.S. Chief Information Office Vivek Kundra explains how the IT Dashboard website helped save $3 billion in taxpayer funds and make government more efficient by shining a light on the federal government’s IT projects.
IT Reform: TechStat Video Tutorial Released
Date: March 15, 2011Type: News
The TechStat video tutorial launched today to assist Federal CIO Council agencies with standing up their own TechStat sessions. The video provides an overview of the TechStat process, and is part of a...
IT Reform: Agencies Prepare to Evaluate Investments via TechStats
Date: February 17, 2011Type: News
Last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) kicked off in-person TechStat training sessions, assisting CIO Council agencies in preparing to hold agency-level Read Related Article
Closing the Tech Gap
Date: July 14, 2010Type: Blog
What if senior management in an Agency – or anyone in the public – could identify and monitor the performance of IT projects just as easily as they could monitor the stock market or baseball scores? That’s what the IT dashboard...
TechStat: Improving Government Performance
Date: July 13, 2010Type: Article
Remarks by Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, at the Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, on March 4, 2010
Date: March 04, 2010Type: Video
In this March 4th speech at the Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle, WA, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra discusses the Obama Administration’s commitment to closing the “technology gap” between the public and private sectors.
TechStat: Improving Government Performance
Date: February 24, 2010Type: Blog
In June 2009, we launched the IT Dashboard, which allows the American people to monitor IT investments across the Federal government. The IT Dashboard, which has received over 86 million hits, shines light into the operations of the Federal government. However, it is not enough to simply shine a...
How “Open Gov” Datasets Affect Parents and Consumers
Date: February 23, 2010Type: Blog
On December 8, 2009, the Administration issued the Open Government Directive to hardwire the values of transparency, participation and collaboration into the DNA of the Federal government. Around here, we call the general effort "Open Gov." You can learn more about it here: WhiteHouse.gov/open.
CIO Evaluations Are In
Date: August 05, 2009Type: Article
CIO Evaluations Are In
Date: August 05, 2009Type: Blog
We just reached an important milestone with respect to the Agency CIOs completing their reviews of the federal government’s major IT investments. On June 30, when we launched the IT Dashboard, just 20 percent of investments were evaluated. Today, 100 percent of the government’s IT investments have...
Evidence-based Decisions
Date: July 17, 2009Type: Article
Evidence-based decisions
Date: July 17, 2009Type: Blog
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), under the leadership of Secretary Shinseki and VA CIO Roger Baker, announced that it will temporarily halt 45 IT projects which are either behind schedule or over budget and work to determine whether these programs should be continued. We’re not...
Welcome to IT Dashboard - The Blog!
Date: July 13, 2009Type: Blog
It has been an exciting time since we launched the IT Dashboard. There have been more than 20 million hits so far, and we’ve received an encouraging response from members of Congress and the public in support of our efforts to increase transparency.
Welcome to IT Dashboard – The Blog!
Date: July 13, 2009Type: Article
