The White House announced a cybersecurity initiative. In doing so, President Obama announced: What isn’t widely known is that during the general election hackers managed to penetrate our computer systems. To all of you who donated to our campaign, I want you to all rest assured, our fundraising website was untouched. (Laughter.) So your confidential […]
Category: Executive Branch
Data.gov
The Times endorses Vivek Kundra’s Data.gov in this editorial. It is no surprise that the I.T. candidate, Barack Obama, is intent on being the I.T. president. To succeed, he will have to remind his administration early and often that he is committed to transparency — and that the threat of embarrassment is no justification for […]
Data.gov
The White House launched Data.gov yesterday. So far, the site has data from about 25 government agencies. The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety […]