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New Board Could Reset Federal Spending, Kundra Says

July 14, 2011 President Obama's new Government Accountability and Transparency Board could be a "total reset" in terms of how the government manages its payments, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told lawmakers Thursday. The new board, established by executive order in June, will be modeled on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, ...

Nearly 10 Percent of Americans Go Online Mostly with Smartphones

July 14, 2011 About 8 percent of Americans now do most of their web surfing on a smartphone, according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project released Monday. Among the 35 percent of Americans who own a smartphone, about one fourth use it as their primary access point for ...

Outgoing federal CIO speculates on his legacy

July 14, 2011 If information technology and entrepreneurship were sufficiently leveraged then within a decade development competitions could be as big a part of federal spending as standard procurement processes are now, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said Thursday. "We spend about half-a-trillion dollars on contracts and grants [annually]," Kundra said. "Imagine ...

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From Nextgov: Outgoing federal CIO speculates on his legacy

July 14, 2011 If information technology and entrepreneurship were sufficiently leveraged then within a decade development competitions could be as big a part of federal spending as standard procurement processes are now, Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said Thursday. Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.

Harvard Study Under Fire for Facebook Mining

July 13, 2011 To the list of organizations struggling to adapt to the new social media world, add social science researchers and their institutional review boards. A massive project to collect data on Harvard's graduating class of 2009 has been put on hold after questions arose about the researchers' use of semi-privileged student ...

States didn't cooperate on Medicaid data repository, official says

July 13, 2011 The Health and Human Services Department missed its 2010 deadline to roll all Medicare and Medicaid claims information into a single, integrated data repository because of limited cooperation and a mishmash of data forms at the state level, officials told lawmakers Tuesday. The integrated data repository, which was launched in ...

Kundra names task force to consolidate federal websites

July 12, 2011 Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra named a 17-member task force on Tuesday to winnow the government's massive Web presence over the next several months and to update government policies for what justifies a new website or domain. The White House also released a list of 1,759 top-level federal Web ...

IG: Corporate e-filing saves money but doesn't reduce unnecessary audits

July 12, 2011 A six-year-old mandate requiring large corporations to file their tax returns electronically has cut costs for businesses and the government, but could have raised the number of unnecessary audits the government performs, according to a watchdog report released publicly Tuesday. Most of the government savings from the corporate e-file program ...

National Archives' first Wikipedian in residence to bring more holdings to the public

July 11, 2011 In January 1874, early feminist icon Susan B. Anthony petitioned Congress to remit a fine she'd received for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election, 47 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the franchise. Until recently, anyone hoping to read that petition would have been limited to a few ...

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From Nextgov: National Archives' first Wikipedian to bring more to the public

July 11, 2011 In January 1874, early feminist icon Susan B. Anthony petitioned Congress to remit a fine she'd received for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election, 47 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the franchise. Until recently, anyone hoping to read that petition would have been limited to a few ...