Earlier today, Vivek Kundra, the country’s first federal chief information officer, debuted a federal “IT dashboard” on USAspending.gov that gives citizens and officials easy access to the government’s technology spending, with project descriptions, status updates, evaluation reports and contact information for managers. Mr. Kundra, displaying the new site at Personal Democracy Forum at Read More
ALBANY—Philip Anderson, formerly a writer for the Albany Project, walked through the LCA press room this morning to meet reporters he'll be dealing with as director of new media communications.
Anderson's hire, along with those of Brian Keeler as director of communications and Andrew Hoppin as chief information officer, is part Read More
Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all when it comes to influencing our government. Because let’s face it: It took a year to get used to Read More
So we’re going to be participating in a TechPresident project, along with the New York Times, MSNBC, and a diverse mix of online political commentators. It’s a new political forum called 10 Questions in which you, the insightful and inventive reader, get to pose questions to the presidential candidates.
Over on his blog, Micah Sifry, a former Nation editor who thinks a lot about technology in politics and who worked on Andrew Rasiej’s campaign for public advocate, has a long post-mortem of that campaign.
It’s worth reading through, though a some of it seemed fairly obvious from the launch of Read More
