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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Open Sourcing the IT Dashboard & the TechStat Process
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 cost reductions.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
The Evolving CIO: From Financial Compliance Origins to Data Singularity
Thank you to those who took a moment to comment on my recent blog introducing my new series on the evolving CIO. Several of you agreed that we need to redefine the purpose of the CIO based on the trajectory of our society. In this spirit, an article comes to mind that I was reading in Time magazine while at the airport.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
The Challenge of Delivering Successful IT Programs
I have had the good fortune of being involved in large-scale IT program management for 25 years. My involvement has included the delivery of systems in private industry to the banking, brokerage (Wall Street), and telecommunications industries, as well as at the Federal government, including the IRS (Business System Modernization) and now DHS.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
The Evolving CIO: The Challenges of the 2nd Decade
Note: I am starting a blog series to share my reflections and create a dialogue on how the role of the CIO must adapt to meet the information management challenges that face us as we move deeper into the 2nd decade of the millennium.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
2010 Instilled Greater Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement at HUD
Tags: Federal innovation, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Jerry Williams blog, HUD, Government Accountability Office, Office of Management and Budget, Open Government Directive, HUD IT investments, HUD Ideas in Action, America Competes Act, HUD Innovation Lab, crowdsourcing, citizen engagement, industry engagement, access to data, transparencyAs the new year begins and we look back over 2010, a couple of significant accomplishments come to mind. The first has to do with our efforts to increase the discipline with which we manage our investment in IT. We have made significant improvements in this area and these improvements are grounded in the principle that having a repeatable and structured approach to investment management will allow HUD to improve performance year over year.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Closing the Tech Gap
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...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Moving To The Cloud
Today, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board announced that it is moving Recovery.gov to the cloud. As the world’s largest consumer of information technology and as stewards of taxpayer dollars, the Federal Government has a duty to be a leader in pioneering the use of new technologies that are more efficient and economical.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
An Initial Assessment of Open Government Plans
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 are off to a good start--but have much more work to do as we transition our overall efforts towards effective agency implementation.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Open 311
I’m on the road today, joining San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco CIO Chris Vein for an event to highlight San Francisco’s Open 311 API (Application Programming Interface) initiative. This is a great approach that ties together efforts in San Francisco, Boston, the District of Columbia, Portland, and Los Angeles to open more services to citizens, and to use data to drive progress in people’s lives.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TechStat: Improving Government Performance
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 light on IT programs and hope that results will follow.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
How “Open Gov” Datasets Affect Parents and Consumers
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.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov
Taking a page from our efforts here in the Obama Administration, the United Kingdom today launched data.gov.uk - a site to aggregate datasets from the UK government. It is exciting to see the seeds of openness, accountability, and transparency taking root around the world.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Changing the Way Washington Works
In order to democratize data and advance the President’s agenda of an open, transparent and participatory government, the Data.gov platform was launched on May 21, 2009, with 47 datasets. Today, we have over 118,000 datasets and have received more than 47 million hits. Since the launch, many state, local and international governments have followed the path to democratize data through their own platforms. From San Francisco to the United Kingdom, there is a global movement to share public sector data to unleash the creativity of citizens, drive transparency and ensure accountability.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Moving Beyond Compliance: The Status Quo Is No Longer Acceptable
The threats to our nations information security continue to evolve and therefore our approach to cybersecurity must confront these new realities. In order to meet the evolving challenges we now face, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) metrics need to be rationalized to focus on outcomes over compliance. Doing so will enable new and actionable insight into agencies' information and network security postures, possible vulnerabilities and the ability to better protect our federal systems.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Streaming at 1:00: In the Cloud
Today, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I'll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA Ames Research Center at 1:00 EDT - watch the speech live here [UPDATE: This event has now concluded].
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
CIO Evaluations Are In
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 been evaluated.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Evidence-based decisions
Tags: Vivek Kundra, U.S. CIO, Federal CIO, waste reduction, halted IT projects, Federal CIOs, agency CIOs, blog, IT Dashboard, open government, accountability, Secretary Shinseki, VA CIO, Roger Baker, Federal IT investments, access to data, citizen engagement, transparency, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, TechStat accountability sessionsToday, 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 talking about a trivial sum here—the Fiscal Year 2009 combined budget for the 45 projects is approximately $200 million. The worst offender of the bunch was 110% over budget and 17 months behind schedule.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Welcome to IT Dashboard - The 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.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Enhancing Online Citizen Participation Through Policy
Last week, Vivek Kundra and Katie Stanton talked about the efforts underway to introduce more Web 2.0 technologies to the federal government sites and to open more back-and-forth communication between the American people and the government. Some of this naturally requires the adoption of new approaches and innovative technologies. But another big part of this is updating existing practices and how these tools can be used to break down barriers to communication and information.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
New Technologies and Participation
Innovation in social technology has created unprecedented opportunity to connect you to your government in order to obtain information and services and to participate in policymaking. If you are on Facebook or MySpace, government should be accessible there, too. This is the core of what we call "context-driven government." Government is only open if it is accessible. So we must bring the important services and issues of public interest into the online communities in which we already work, live, and play and create new communities for mutual engagement.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Data Transparency via Data.gov
Government data permeates our lives. The atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardizes our time, dictating when we arrive at meetings and take our children to soccer practice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides our doctors and media outlets with information about how to keep our families healthy when there is a new public health concern, such as the H1N1 (swine flu) virus.
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