The Rise of the Chief Data Officer
More and more federal government agencies are getting a “chief data officer” (CDO). NextGov interviewed five recently appointed agency CDOs. These are very brief overviews of the vast amount of data being managed by the government (the CDO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notes that they are adding about a billion records […]
Administration sets record for withholding government files
The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. The analysis of new FOIA data released by U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, covered all requests […]
Government Web Sites Analytics
The web site analytics.usa.gov, which is run by the General Services Administration, provides real time web site analytics for a selection of federal government web sites. From “about this site”: This data provides a window into how people are interacting with the government online. The data comes from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. […]
Senate Republican’s Open Letter to Iran AND Iranian Response
1. Senate Letter: March 9, 2015 An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran: It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our Constitution-the […]
DOTD: Propaganda Posters at NARA
Document of the Day: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has some propaganda posters from the the U.S. Information Agency online. Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, ca. 1950 – ca. 1965. NARA. Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 – 2003. The Publications Division and […]