- The federal government has begun a program to place all
nonclassified information online in formats that make it simple
for researchers and developers to work with. - By opening up
this information to the public, federal chief information
officer Vivek Kundra hopes to reduce government waste and make
it easier for citizens to interact with government. - Kundra has
also introduced the Information Technology Dashboard, a Web-
based service that allows citizens to track the progress of
various federal IT infrastructure projects. - Privacy and
security remain major challenges. Government databases often
contain information about individual citizens, and that
information must be stripped out before posting. The federal
government is many things, but transparent it is not. As the
nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra is
attempting to pull the federal infrastructure into the
information age by making government data freely available
online. Is it possible for technology to revolutionize the way
we