IRS: Turn Over A New Leaf, Open Up Data
blog.okfn.org
on 05/25/2013
Excerpt: The following post is co-authored by Stefan Verhulst and Beth Noveck. It is cross-posted from Forbes. com. If you’d like to learn more about tax data, check out our data expedition on tax evasion and avoidance on the 6th June! The core task for Danny Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is to repair the agency’s tarnished reputation and achieve greater efficacy and fairness in IRS investigations. Mr. Werfel can show true leadership by restructuring how the IRS handles its tax-exempt enforcement processes. People filing tax forms at the IRS in 1920. One of Mr.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government, theapistack
IRS: Turn Over A New Leaf, Open Up Data
blog.okfn.org
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: The following post is co-authored by Stefan Verhulst and Beth Noveck. It is cross-posted from Forbes. com. If you’d like to learn more about tax data, check out our data expedition on tax evasion and avoidance on the 6th June! The core task for Danny Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is to repair the agency’s tarnished reputation and achieve greater efficacy and fairness in IRS investigations. Mr. Werfel can show true leadership by restructuring how the IRS handles its tax-exempt enforcement processes. People filing tax forms at the IRS in 1920. One of Mr.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, IRS, Open Data, Story, taxes
Sunlight Foundation: House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
by Daniel Schuman May 24, 2013, noon
Yesterday, the House of Representatives hosted its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. More than 100 people attended, with speakers from inside and outside government discussing how legislative information can be improved to meet the needs of internal and external uses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: OpenGov Voices: Data.gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. OpenGov Voices: Data. gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN
by guest author Irina Bolychevsky May 24, 2013, 11:56 a. m. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Foundation or any employee thereof.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government, Open Data
White House Issues Executive Order on Open Data
blog.aids.gov
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, and we want to take a moment to reflect on a recent White House Executive Order about open data. This Executive Order and accompanying Open Data Policy [PDF 6MB] requires that, going forward, all data generated by the federal government be made available in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable (read about it in this blog post). Executive orders are official actions through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the federal government. This Executive Order has implications for all of us. What does “open data” mean?... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Digital Strategy at One Year: Improving Services for HHS Customers | HHS.gov/DigitalStrategy
www.hhs.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Technology changes rapidly. To keep pace, the federal government must provide information across a growing number of platforms with limited resources. Federal workers and the American people increasingly expect to access accurate information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. The Digital Government Strategy
is One Year Old. To promote openness and improved customer service, the White House published Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People (Digital Government Strategy) last year. To meet the goals set out in the Strategy, HHS is modernizing our digital services.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digitalgov, Federal Government, socialgov
Digital Strategy: Delivering Better Results for the Public | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Today marks one year since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. The Strategy is built on the proposition that all Americans should be able to access information from their Government anywhere, anytime, and on any device; that open government data - data that are publicly accessible in easy-to-use formats - can fuel innovation and economic growth; and that technology can make government more transparent, more efficient, and more effective.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digital Strategy, Digitalgov, Federal Government
US Government APIs | Data.gov
www.data.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Datasets that are uploaded into Data. gov automatically generate APIs. For each of the below datasets, Socrata's Developer Documentation provides resources and background. To access queryable parameters, click through to the individual dataset, then choose Export->API. In support of the Digital Government Strategy, this project seeks to provide comprehensive access to the APIs made public by U. S. federal agencies. Please improve this project by reporting any APIs that are missing from this list. The recently released Open Data Policy provides the foundation for the next generation of this catalog. Data. gov is undergoing an overhaul in order to consume the Agency. gov/data. json catalogs that agencies are beginning to release.... read the full post.
Tags: , Federal Government
GSA Answers the Call of the Digital Government Strategy
gsablogs.gsa.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy. These new services and resources along with the release of new GSA mobile products and open data (or APIs) were launched as part of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, an effort set to transform public-facing government services in line with 21stcentury expectations. GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, Federal Government, GSA, stories
Haptic interface to e-government service – we need more APIs
www.peterkrantz.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Excerpt: The following post is co-authored by Stefan Verhulst and Beth Noveck. It is cross-posted from Forbes. com. If you’d like to learn more about tax data, check out our data expedition on tax evasion and avoidance on the 6th June! The core task for Danny Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), is to repair the agency’s tarnished reputation and achieve greater efficacy and fairness in IRS investigations. Mr. Werfel can show true leadership by restructuring how the IRS handles its tax-exempt enforcement processes. People filing tax forms at the IRS in 1920. One of Mr.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, IRS, Open Data, Story, taxes
Sunlight Foundation: House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
by Daniel Schuman May 24, 2013, noon
Yesterday, the House of Representatives hosted its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. More than 100 people attended, with speakers from inside and outside government discussing how legislative information can be improved to meet the needs of internal and external uses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: OpenGov Voices: Data.gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. OpenGov Voices: Data. gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN
by guest author Irina Bolychevsky May 24, 2013, 11:56 a. m. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Foundation or any employee thereof.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government, Open Data
White House Issues Executive Order on Open Data
blog.aids.gov
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, and we want to take a moment to reflect on a recent White House Executive Order about open data. This Executive Order and accompanying Open Data Policy [PDF 6MB] requires that, going forward, all data generated by the federal government be made available in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable (read about it in this blog post). Executive orders are official actions through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the federal government. This Executive Order has implications for all of us. What does “open data” mean?... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Digital Strategy at One Year: Improving Services for HHS Customers | HHS.gov/DigitalStrategy
www.hhs.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Technology changes rapidly. To keep pace, the federal government must provide information across a growing number of platforms with limited resources. Federal workers and the American people increasingly expect to access accurate information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. The Digital Government Strategy
is One Year Old. To promote openness and improved customer service, the White House published Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People (Digital Government Strategy) last year. To meet the goals set out in the Strategy, HHS is modernizing our digital services.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digitalgov, Federal Government, socialgov
Digital Strategy: Delivering Better Results for the Public | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Today marks one year since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. The Strategy is built on the proposition that all Americans should be able to access information from their Government anywhere, anytime, and on any device; that open government data - data that are publicly accessible in easy-to-use formats - can fuel innovation and economic growth; and that technology can make government more transparent, more efficient, and more effective.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digital Strategy, Digitalgov, Federal Government
US Government APIs | Data.gov
www.data.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Datasets that are uploaded into Data. gov automatically generate APIs. For each of the below datasets, Socrata's Developer Documentation provides resources and background. To access queryable parameters, click through to the individual dataset, then choose Export->API. In support of the Digital Government Strategy, this project seeks to provide comprehensive access to the APIs made public by U. S. federal agencies. Please improve this project by reporting any APIs that are missing from this list. The recently released Open Data Policy provides the foundation for the next generation of this catalog. Data. gov is undergoing an overhaul in order to consume the Agency. gov/data. json catalogs that agencies are beginning to release.... read the full post.
Tags: , Federal Government
GSA Answers the Call of the Digital Government Strategy
gsablogs.gsa.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy. These new services and resources along with the release of new GSA mobile products and open data (or APIs) were launched as part of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, an effort set to transform public-facing government services in line with 21stcentury expectations. GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, Federal Government, GSA, stories
Haptic interface to e-government service – we need more APIs
www.peterkrantz.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. OpenGov Voices: Data. gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN by guest author Irina Bolychevsky May 24, 2013, 11:56 a. m. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the Sunlight Foundation or any employee thereof.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government, Open Data
White House Issues Executive Order on Open Data
blog.aids.gov
on 05/24/2013
Excerpt: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, and we want to take a moment to reflect on a recent White House Executive Order about open data. This Executive Order and accompanying Open Data Policy [PDF 6MB] requires that, going forward, all data generated by the federal government be made available in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable (read about it in this blog post). Executive orders are official actions through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the federal government. This Executive Order has implications for all of us. What does “open data” mean?... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Digital Strategy at One Year: Improving Services for HHS Customers | HHS.gov/DigitalStrategy
www.hhs.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Technology changes rapidly. To keep pace, the federal government must provide information across a growing number of platforms with limited resources. Federal workers and the American people increasingly expect to access accurate information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. The Digital Government Strategy
is One Year Old. To promote openness and improved customer service, the White House published Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People (Digital Government Strategy) last year. To meet the goals set out in the Strategy, HHS is modernizing our digital services.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digitalgov, Federal Government, socialgov
Digital Strategy: Delivering Better Results for the Public | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Today marks one year since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. The Strategy is built on the proposition that all Americans should be able to access information from their Government anywhere, anytime, and on any device; that open government data - data that are publicly accessible in easy-to-use formats - can fuel innovation and economic growth; and that technology can make government more transparent, more efficient, and more effective.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digital Strategy, Digitalgov, Federal Government
US Government APIs | Data.gov
www.data.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Datasets that are uploaded into Data. gov automatically generate APIs. For each of the below datasets, Socrata's Developer Documentation provides resources and background. To access queryable parameters, click through to the individual dataset, then choose Export->API. In support of the Digital Government Strategy, this project seeks to provide comprehensive access to the APIs made public by U. S. federal agencies. Please improve this project by reporting any APIs that are missing from this list. The recently released Open Data Policy provides the foundation for the next generation of this catalog. Data. gov is undergoing an overhaul in order to consume the Agency. gov/data. json catalogs that agencies are beginning to release.... read the full post.
Tags: , Federal Government
GSA Answers the Call of the Digital Government Strategy
gsablogs.gsa.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy. These new services and resources along with the release of new GSA mobile products and open data (or APIs) were launched as part of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, an effort set to transform public-facing government services in line with 21stcentury expectations. GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, Federal Government, GSA, stories
Haptic interface to e-government service – we need more APIs
www.peterkrantz.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Excerpt: Technology changes rapidly. To keep pace, the federal government must provide information across a growing number of platforms with limited resources. Federal workers and the American people increasingly expect to access accurate information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. The Digital Government Strategy is One Year Old. To promote openness and improved customer service, the White House published Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People (Digital Government Strategy) last year. To meet the goals set out in the Strategy, HHS is modernizing our digital services.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digitalgov, Federal Government, socialgov
Digital Strategy: Delivering Better Results for the Public | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Today marks one year since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5), as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. The Strategy is built on the proposition that all Americans should be able to access information from their Government anywhere, anytime, and on any device; that open government data - data that are publicly accessible in easy-to-use formats - can fuel innovation and economic growth; and that technology can make government more transparent, more efficient, and more effective.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Digital Strategy, Digitalgov, Federal Government
US Government APIs | Data.gov
www.data.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: Datasets that are uploaded into Data. gov automatically generate APIs. For each of the below datasets, Socrata's Developer Documentation provides resources and background. To access queryable parameters, click through to the individual dataset, then choose Export->API. In support of the Digital Government Strategy, this project seeks to provide comprehensive access to the APIs made public by U. S. federal agencies. Please improve this project by reporting any APIs that are missing from this list. The recently released Open Data Policy provides the foundation for the next generation of this catalog. Data. gov is undergoing an overhaul in order to consume the Agency. gov/data. json catalogs that agencies are beginning to release.... read the full post.
Tags: , Federal Government
GSA Answers the Call of the Digital Government Strategy
gsablogs.gsa.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy. These new services and resources along with the release of new GSA mobile products and open data (or APIs) were launched as part of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, an effort set to transform public-facing government services in line with 21stcentury expectations. GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, Federal Government, GSA, stories
Haptic interface to e-government service – we need more APIs
www.peterkrantz.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Excerpt: Datasets that are uploaded into Data. gov automatically generate APIs. For each of the below datasets, Socrata's Developer Documentation provides resources and background. To access queryable parameters, click through to the individual dataset, then choose Export->API. In support of the Digital Government Strategy, this project seeks to provide comprehensive access to the APIs made public by U. S. federal agencies. Please improve this project by reporting any APIs that are missing from this list. The recently released Open Data Policy provides the foundation for the next generation of this catalog. Data. gov is undergoing an overhaul in order to consume the Agency. gov/data. json catalogs that agencies are beginning to release.... read the full post.
Tags: , Federal Government
GSA Answers the Call of the Digital Government Strategy
gsablogs.gsa.gov
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy. These new services and resources along with the release of new GSA mobile products and open data (or APIs) were launched as part of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy, an effort set to transform public-facing government services in line with 21stcentury expectations. GSA is driving innovation and improving the delivery of services to citizens through a number of initiatives being delivered today as part of the one year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, Federal Government, GSA, stories
Haptic interface to e-government service – we need more APIs
www.peterkrantz.com
on 05/23/2013
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
Excerpt: A small hack to simplify the application for temporary parental benefit for care of children from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). Typically this involves multiple steps in a web browser. Now, moving a doll to a square and the computer will send relevant information to kindergarten and the social insurance agency.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government
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