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Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives related to the economy and financial management in the United States.
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- USAspending.gov - IT Dashboard
- The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of US Government Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time.
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- Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap and Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue GAO-12-342SP
- Government Accountability Office, February 28, 2012. "This is GAO's second annual report to Congress in response to the statutory requirement that GAO identify federal programs, agencies, offices, and initiatives, either within departments or governmentwide, which have duplicative goals or activities. This annual report for 2012 presents 51 areas where programs may be able to achieve greater efficiencies or become more effective in providing government services. This report describes 32 areas in which we found evidence of duplication, overlap, or fragmentation among federal government programs. We have found that agencies can often realize a range of benefits, such as improved customer service, decreased administrative burdens, and cost savings from addressing the issues we raise in this report..."
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- States Fear DATA Act's Costs
- By Ryan Holeywell. Government Technology, May 4, 2012. "State and local government officials are finding themselves the odd men out on a popular piece of bipartisan legislation designed to increase transparency and accountability of federal spending. State and local officials, and the organizations that represent them, say they don’t oppose those goals — but they don’t like the way Congress is trying to achieve them. Last week, the House passed the DATA Act, which would essentially take the enhanced reporting requirements that came with stimulus spending — which many observers credit with creating a new era of accountability in Washington — and extend it across all federal contracts, grants and loans..."
Added: 7 May 2012;
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- Transparency group supports DATA Act, standardized reporting tools
- By William Jackson. Government Computer News, April 17, 2012. "A group of tech companies and public interest groups has formed a coalition to lobby for standardized requirements and formats for reporting and tracking government spending. The Data Transparency Coalition is calling for passage of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, or DATA Act, which would make the current Recovery.gov website a permanent online portal for tracking government spending, as well as adoption of other technical standards to make government more transparent..."
Added: 18 April 2012;
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- Strategies to Cut Costs and Improve Performance
- by Charles L. Prow, Debra Cammer Hines, Daniel B. Prieto. IBM Center for the Performance of Government, 2010. "The federal government faces an estimated annual structural budget deficit of $500 billion – 700 billion. Deficits of this magnitude represent a major threat to the economic health of the nation. A plan to reduce and eliminate this structural deficit is urgently needed..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- Performance website underperforms
- By Sean Reilly. Federal Times, Last Updated: September 4, 2011 . "A year ago, the Obama administration heralded plans to launch a new website that would provide "unmatched transparency on government performance" — a site that would fuse data-driven reviews and information on agency objectives, key performance indicators and milestones. After a 10-month delay and $1.7 million in development costs, performance.gov finally debuted last month — to sharply mixed reviews on whether it lives up to that initial billing..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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- New Performance.gov website faces performance problems of its own
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 26 August 2011. "The Performance.gov website, launched Thursday as a central repository for information about federal agencies' spending, hiring and cost-cutting initiatives, soon will be the main home for all federal performance websites, a White House official told Nextgov. In accordance with a governmentwide campaign to rationalize the federal Web presence, Performance.gov will become the master domain for government performance data with other performance-tracking websites, such as the Federal IT Dashboard, rolled into Performance.gov as lower-level domains, the Office of Management and Budget official said..."
Added: 30 August 2011;
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- Performance.gov
- "Performance.gov is a central website that provides a window on the Administration's efforts to deliver a more effective, smarter, and leaner government. The site gives the public, government agencies, Members of Congress, the media, and others a view of the progress underway in cutting waste, streamlining government, and improving performance. Specifically, Performance.gov provides information on the government's progress in the following areas of focus: - Improving the return on contract spending - Reducing improper payments - Eliminating unneeded Federal real estate - Achieving technology-driven productivity gains - Accelerating performance on agency priorities - Hiring the best to deliver the best Performance.gov advances the commitment in the President’s FY2011 budget to communicate candidly and concisely what the Federal government is trying to accomplish, how it is trying to accomplish it, and why these efforts are important. The home page provides two main ways to view information, by agency or area of focus..."
Added: 29 August 2011;
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- Performance.gov goes live after lengthy preparations
- By Charles S. Clark. Govexec.com, August 25, 2011. "The long-anticipated and many-times-delayed central federal website Performance.gov went live Thursday morning, providing a new dashboard through which the general public can track spending, cost-cutting and progress in hiring agency by agency..."
Added: 29 August 2011;
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- White House Aide Says Tweets Influenced Debt Ceiling Deal
- by Emily Banks. Mashable, 31 July 2011. "Appropriately, in a conversation that took place on Twitter, a White House aide said Sunday night that Twitter influenced the recently announced agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling. The tweets were exchanged between Brian Stelter, a reporter at The New York Times, and Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director..."
Added: 4 August 2011;
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- Call the White House Boring on Twitter, Get Rickrolled
- by Brenna Ehrlich. Mashable, 27 July 2011. "... This week, the White House kicked off a new Twitter program called 'Office Hours', designed to help U.S. citizens better understand everything that's been going on with the debt ceiling and deficit reduction negotiations. National Economic Council members Brian Deese and Jason Furman will be answering questions via the White House Twitter all week, responding to Twitter users who care to engage..."
Added: 28 July 2011;
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- House panel approves transparency bill
- Most transparency advocates favor the legislation, but there are worries about several provisions, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, June 23, 2011. "A House panel has approved a bill that would create a single governmentwide board to set rules for expense reporting and track all federal spending data on a single website modeled after the Recovery.gov site..."
Added: 24 June 2011;
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- Executive Order - Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government
- The White House - Office of the Press Secretary, June 13, 2011. "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to cut waste, streamline Government operations, and reinforce the performance and management reform gains my Administration has achieved, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. My Administration is committed to ensuring that the Federal Government serves the American people with the utmost effectiveness and efficiency. Over the last 2 years, we have made good progress and have saved taxpayer dollars by cutting waste and increasing the efficiency of Government operations by curbing uncontrolled growth in contract spending, terminating poorly performing information technology projects, deploying state of the art fraud detection tools to crack down on waste, focusing agency leaders on achieving ambitious improvements in high priority areas, and opening Government up to the public to increase accountability and accelerate innovation..."
Added: 14 June 2011;
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- Government performance website may not meet congressional requirements
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 27 May 2011. "Without additional funding, the Office of Management and Budget may be unable to meet the October 2012 deadline Congress gave it for producing an easily searchable public website detailing the performance of all government programs, an administration official said. That website, Performance.gov, is funded through the federal electronic-government fund..."
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- Public Cut Out of Budget Negotiations
- by John Wonderlich. The Sunlight Foundation, April 12, 2011. "Well, here we are. Details of the budget deal negotiated last week have finally been posted online, and e-government programs are likely to be deeply cut. The bill will come to a vote in the next few days, and will likely become law, since it represents an agreement reached by congressional negotiators and the White House..."
Added: 13 April 2011;
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- Open source IT Dashboard tracks govt spending
- Open source Drupal already popular in government, by Rodney Gedda (CIO). Computerworld, 5 April, 2011. "The United States Government has open sourced the IT Dashboard project, a Web-based application designed to track IT spending used by CIOs of government agencies..."
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