Digital Government Strategy

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'Rockstar' Innovators Descend on Washington

Camille Tuutti | Federal Computer Week | August 23, 2012

A dream team of innovators have descended on Washington, D.C., where they spend six months within the federal government to work on initiatives to support entrepreneurs, small businesses and the overall economy. Read More »

Building-Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government

Steven VanRoekel | Newsmotion | August 23, 2012

Today marks three months since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5) – as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. Read More »

Can US Government Shift To Outside-In Digital Approach?

Staff Writer | Computerworld | August 12, 2012

Embracing new ideas and technology to solve real problems and deliver winning customer experience management (CXM) strategies is separating winners from losers... Read More »

Federal CIO Outlines Next Steps

J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | February 21, 2013

With Obama's first term in the rearview mirror, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel is looking for ways to continue to improve federal IT even in the face of looming budget cuts. Read More »

Hitting The Ground Running With The Digital Strategy

Steven VanRoekel | www.whitehouse.gov | June 21, 2012

Last month, the Obama Administration launched the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), a comprehensive roadmap aimed at building a 21st Century Digital Government that delivers better digital services to the American people. We’ve hit the ground running and are already hard at work driving the strategy forward. Read More »

U.S. CTO Todd Park Out To Spur Entrepreneurship With Data “Jujitsu”

Robert Buderi | Xconomy | September 10, 2012

The chief technology officer of a company can have a wide range of responsibilities—from overseeing development of innovative new products to making sure servers stay up. But what about the chief technology officer of the United States of America? Read More »

U.S. Government Seeks Reduced Use of Custom Software, Releases New Policy to 'Free the Code'

As I've written before, there has been a shift, going back almost a decade, away from the debate over whether to use open source to a focus on the how to. The release by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of the U.S. Federal Source Code Policy on August 8th is the latest manifestation of this shift. It achieves the goal laid out in the Obama administration's Second Open Government National Action Plan (PDF) for improved access to custom software code developed for the federal government. The plan emphasized use of (and contributing back to) open source software to fuel innovation, lower costs, and benefit the public. It also furthers a long-standing "default to open" objective going back to the early days of the administration...

VanRoekel Gives Update On Federal Government Digital Efforts

Luke Fretwell | FedScoop | August 24, 2012

U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel provided a three-month anniversary update on deliverables related to the federal Digital Government Strategy, emphasizing the efforts made are critical in providing “the highest value of services” for the American people. Read More »

White House Marks Digital Gov Strategy’s First Milestones

David Hubler | GCN | August 24, 2012

Federal agencies are making “great strides” toward meeting President Barack Obama’s May 23 directive, “Building a 21st Century Digital Government” during the next year, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said in marking the first quarterly anniversary of the initiative. Read More »

White House to mandate machine-readable open data

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | January 7, 2013

White House technology leaders are close to issuing a new policy that will change the way agencies release data to the public. Todd Park, the federal chief technology officer, said Friday the new policy is one of several steps to spur the release of more data from agencies. Read More »

Why APIs Aren't Enough At BusinessUSA.gov

Staff Writer | AOL Gov | July 2, 2012

BusinessUSA connects businesses to many government services and information. It does that primarily by providing access to APIs – the instructions that allow software applications to exchange information – but APIs only involve the transfer of data and do not provide a user interface to actually see the data. Read More »