Transcript The Goals

Digital Government
“Federal agencies required to make services available to mobile users within 12
months and to release more government data through Web APIs.”
“[An] information- and
customer-centric
approach to changing
how the government
works and delivers
services.“
- Federal CIO Steven
VanRoekel
"Ultimately, this
strategy will ensure that
agencies use emerging
technologies to serve
the public as effectively
as possible,"
-President Obama.
The Goals:
1. To give citizens access to
digital government information
from a variety of devices,
including mobile
2. To make it easier for federal
employees to obtain mobile and
other devices, applications, and
data through improvements to
the procurement process
3. To spur innovation and service
improvements through the
release of government data in
open, machine-readable
formats.
“Hacktivist and
cybercriminal threats
concern IT teams most”
- InformationWeek’s
Federal Government
Cybersecurity Survey
“[Being] device and
vendor-agnostic, in terms
of the strategies we lay
out. We don’t want to be
creating a marketplace
winner through policy.”
-VanRoekel, in an
interview with Alex
Howard
Sources
• http://www.acm.org/public-policy
• http://www.informationweek.com/regulation
s/3-goals-of-white-house-digital-governmentplan/d/d-id/1104518?
• http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/whitehouse-launches-new-digit.html