An image posted on White House CTO Vivek Kundra’s blog shows his boss using the new IT spending… »

The Department of Veteran’s affairs halted 45 IT projects totaling $200 million in fiscal year 2009 alone, the nation’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced on his blog today.
Kundra wrote that one of the projects was 110% over budget and 17 months behind schedule.
The VA will audit the projects in the coming weeks to… »

Council Member Shelley Midura has been a great public servant.
While not parting words, in her announcement that she would not seek re-election, she provided some profound insight into the entrenched problems of City Hall (emphasis added):
What troubles me most about New Orleans is the democracy gap between the priorities of the people and the… »

It’s unfortunate for our city that some people only remember how Mayor Nagin and Sanitation Director Veronica White accused Stacy Head of racism after the Councilwoman accused White of lying. It’s unfortunate that some people don’t remember what the underlying issue was: transparency.
Veronica White revealed that she was willfully withholding monthly data for the number… »

D.C. officials are touting the Open 311 system as the first of its kind in the world:
Today District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and Interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Chris Willey announced that the District has launched “Open 311. Open 311 provides open, free Application Programming Interface (API) access to the city’s 311 system… »

It might not be equitable to only give citizens with iPhones the ability to report potholes when they see them — but it’s a start down the path toward more interactive government:
City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances - nasty potholes, graffiti-stained… »

President Obama’s CIO, Vivek Kundra, unveiled a new IT contracting dashboard yesterday at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City.
Project managers and the public alike can now see an instant assessment of how well, or how poorly, $70 billion in federal IT investments are being managed.
The Federal IT Dashboard is an… »

President Obama announced a community solutions agenda yesterday, naming Melody Barnes to be his new director of the Domestic Policy Council. Her mission is to travel around the country to discover great non-profit initiatives that are helping to strengthen communities.
Obama also proposed to Congress a $50 million innovation fund included in the Edward M. Kennedy… »