US Government Plans to Get Up to Speed with Technology

The US Government has announced it's plan to get up to speed with the latest technology available since people using mobile devices and the internet for information has increased dramatically over the last decade. The government websites that were set up in the 90's are no longer working well today. Being called the “Roadmap for a Digital Government, the plan has two central tenets.

First, It tasks federal agencies with giving citizens easier access to information and services on modern web and mobile apps. Second, it hopes to instill a culture of treating government as an open-source project by inviting external developers to create third-party apps using federal data and APIs." 

Source: http://mashable.com/2012/05/24/white-house-government-mobile/

According to Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel on the White House blog, "At its core, the strategy takes a coordinated, information- and customer-centric approach to changing how the government works and delivers services to the American people. Designing for openness from the start – making open data the default for government IT systems and embracing the use of web APIs – enables us to more easily deliver information and services through multiple channels, including mobile, and engage the public and America’s entrepreneurs as partners in building a better government.

Treating the government as an open platform in this way encourages innovation. Just look at how the government’s release of GPS and weather data fueled billion dollar industries. It also makes government more efficient and able to adapt to inevitable changes in technology.

Over the next 12 months, you will start to see an important shift across the Federal Government. Agencies will increasingly open up their valuable data to the public and set up Developer pages to give external developers tools to build new services. To make sure there’s no wrong door for accessing government data, we will transform Data.gov into a data and API catalog that in real time pulls directly from agency websites. Agencies will mobilize two of their priority customer-facing services, moving us closer to serving the American people anytime, anywhere, on the device of their choice."

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/23/roadmap-digital-government

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