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Daily Digest | Kundra Pulls Back the Curtain
the editors | July 1, 2009 - 5:55pm | Email This!- PdF '09: Kundra Unveils IT Spending Dashboard At Personal Democracy Forum 2009 Tuesday morning, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra was rewarded with an enthusiastic standing ovation for pulling back the curtain on the federal IT spending dashboard he has been talking up in recent weeks, as an interface onto the biggest of the technology projects that are commissioned and executed under the vast umbrella of the federal government. While IT.USAspending.gov is in beta, the site has ambitions of opening up a portal onto the tremendous sums of money spent on federal information technology projects that have an unfortunate history of going horribly, miserably, disastrously wrong...
- What I Want in the IT Dashboard And speaking of Vivek Kundra's new federal IT spending dashboard, Matthew Burton writes that it's astonishing how quickly Kundra's office -- a government one, no less -- put together something so polished. The dashboard provides data on the development and budget statuses of thousands of government IT contracts, allowing the public to find out where their tax dollars are going. But something is still missing from the dashboard: while it will create better government IT management, it won't necessarily lead to better government IT tools...
- A panoramic view of #pdf09 Micah shares a panoramic view of #pdf09 during @mwesch's spellbinding talk
- "Launching in Beta" -- A Look at PdF '09 Day Two By mid-morning, it was already a rather remarkable second day of Personal Democracy Forum 2009 in New York City. And an astonishing 15,000 PdF-tagged tweets flowed in the last day and a half, coming from more than 2,700 people (which, interestingly, is far more people than the number of folks physically present here in the Jazz at Lincoln Center space). You can dive into the full Twitter stream if you dare; or we'll parse them out for you by individual session, including conversations about innovating from within government featuring the White House's Vivek Kundra, Macon Phillips and Beth Noveck; Michael Wesch on YouTube culture and authenticity; Todd Herman on "tak[ing] the lid off" of the Republican Party; and more. There's also longer coverage from the Wall Street Journal's Marisa Taylor on the "battle over broadband," live blogging of the morning's sessions compiled by Write Like She Talks' Jill Zimon, and much, much more...
- The Reviews Are In... The first batch of recaps, reminiscences, and assessments of the just wrapped Personal Democracy Forum 2009 are starting to bubble up. But don't spend all day trawling the Internet looking for commentary - we'll do it for you. Here's a few to get us started: Rory O'Connor has a run down of the whole program, which is a great overview if you weren't able to attend; The Wall Street Journal's Kimberly Chou covers yesterday's conversation of journalists about what, if any, role Twitter played in the Iranian uprising; Wired's Shelley Dubois reports that media anthropologist Michael Wesch wowed the crowd with his ethnography of "whatever;" and after 18,600 tweets from more than 3,000 different folks, there's much, much more...
- Obama to Field Internet Questions in Today's Health Care Townhall Once again, President Barack Obama will be taking questions from the Internet. Saying "inaction is not an option," Obama announced through a YouTube video that the White House will today host one of their special-blend online townhalls that mixes together Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and live video streaming on White House Live. The special guest? The president himself. The subject? What Americans are wrestling with when it comes to health care costs, coverage, and choice...
- A reminder about PdF Europe (Nov 21-22) and PdF 2010 Special 2-For-1 Offer Extended Don't forget Monday's big announcement about Personal Democracy Forum Europe, our first conference overseas, which is happening November 21-22 in Barcelona, at the Torre Agbar. To get on the mailing list for more details, go to www.personaldemocracy.eu and sign up! And, until Thursday only, we're making a special offer to PdF conference attendees and anyone else interested in attending PdF 2010 here in New York City, scheduled for June 21-22. If you purchase a ticket to PdF 2010 by Thursday, you can bring a friend for free.
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