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Cracking Down on Wasteful, Duplicative Spending
Date: May 03, 2011Type: Blog
For too long, the Federal Government allowed the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars to fund ineffective and duplicative projects, failing to leverage advances in technology to achieve savings. The result is that taxpayer dollars have been wasted. This should never be tolerated, but...
White House Forum Details Progress on IT Reforms
Date: April 27, 2011Type: News
From 1:30 to 2:30PM EST today, the White House Forum on Transforming Federal IT Management provided an update on how the Administration is changing the way the Federal government uses IT to save money and deliver better...
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 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. Too often we hear stories about how the Federal government, for one reason or another, lacks technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. For example, when this Administration first came into office employees at the Department of the Interior... This is a video from an external site. For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed.
This summer we took a hard look at 26 high priority projects that were... 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... The Federal Government lacks many of the technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. This IT gap significantly impacts our ability to improve the efficiency of government and deliver better services to the American people. 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... 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... Thank you Admiral Rondeau and Dr. Childs for inviting me to speak today. Let me begin by congratulating the 2010 National Defense University graduates. It's an honor to be here with you, to share this important milestone as you move into the next phase in your... 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... Cyber-crime on the rise with 100 attacks a second worldwide. With headlines like these, just in the past couple of days, it is little wonder why the Obama Administration is taking the threat of cyber attack so seriously. Without question, the threat is real, and our response must match it in... I just returned from a productive trip to the West Coast, where I met with technology innovators from the private sector and state and local governments to hear their ideas about how the Federal Government can leverage the power of technology to deliver better results for the American people. 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... 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.
Date: March 16, 2011 White Board: The IT Dashboard & the Value of Transparency
Type: Video
Date: February 02, 2011 IT Reform: "Mythbusting" to Improve Communication with Vendors
Type: Article
Date: December 17, 2010 Department of the Interior is Leading the Way in Redefining the Role of the Department CIO
Type: Article
Date: December 17, 2010 Department of the Interior is Leading the Way in Redefining the Role of the Department CIO
Type: Blog
Date: December 15, 2010
Interior Streamlines IT Organization and Infrastructure
Type: External Video
Date: December 10, 2010 Saving Money on Government IT
Type: Blog
Date: July 14, 2010 Closing the Tech Gap
Type: Blog
Date: June 15, 2010 Closing the IT Gap
Type: Blog
Date: May 21, 2010 Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old
Type: Blog
Date: May 13, 2010 Moving To The Cloud
Type: Blog
Date: April 30, 2010 Commencement Address by Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, at the National Defense University
Type: News
Date: April 27, 2010 An Initial Assessment of Open Government Plans
Type: Blog
Date: April 21, 2010 Faster, Smarter Cybersecurity
Type: Article
Date: April 21, 2010 Faster, Smarter Cybersecurity
Type: Blog
Date: March 11, 2010 Getting Outside the Four Walls of Washington
Type: Blog
Date: February 24, 2010 TechStat: Improving Government Performance
Type: Blog
Date: February 23, 2010 How “Open Gov” Datasets Affect Parents and Consumers
Type: Blog
