Today is a great day in History. I find myself hailing Obama for keeping a promise, in other news, pigs fly, see page (B12).
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/...ies-to-open-up
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/...ies-to-open-up
The Obama administration released a long-awaited openness directive Tuesday, ordering ornery federal agencies to comply with its government sunshine promises, including creating interactive open-government web pages and publishing three new raw-data sets in 45 days.
The so-called Open Government Directive (.pdf) aims to give rules to federal agencies to force them out of bureaucratic habits that keep government information away from the public eye. For instance, the directives tell agencies to begin publishing government data proactively, instead of waiting for outsiders to request the data through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Agencies also have 60 days to launch open-government pages at the standardized URL of www.AgencyName.gov/open. There the agency has to talk about how it is opening up, allow the public to suggest new data to publish and interact with the agency. Additionally, each agency has to publish three new and substantive data sets in an open format within 45 days, and share them at the Data.gov website.
The so-called Open Government Directive (.pdf) aims to give rules to federal agencies to force them out of bureaucratic habits that keep government information away from the public eye. For instance, the directives tell agencies to begin publishing government data proactively, instead of waiting for outsiders to request the data through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Agencies also have 60 days to launch open-government pages at the standardized URL of www.AgencyName.gov/open. There the agency has to talk about how it is opening up, allow the public to suggest new data to publish and interact with the agency. Additionally, each agency has to publish three new and substantive data sets in an open format within 45 days, and share them at the Data.gov website.
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