OMB has now issued guidance to that effect, encouraging agencies to use existing program administrative data in new ways.
The Obama Administration has championed “open data” by encouraging agencies to make a wider range of agency statistical information available to the public. Its philosophy is “information is a valuable national resource and strategic asset.” To that end, it has iss
While the headlines about the president’s new budget focus on the big numbers, there is a significant back story about what the Office of Management and Budget says is the expanded use of “evidence and rigorous evaluation to improve policy outcomes” when it comes to the details of the budget.
The following are edited excerpts from Performance.gov.
Cross-Agency Priority goals address the longstanding challenge of tackling horizontal problems across vertical organizational silos. 15 Cross-Agency Priority Goals were announced in the 2015 Budget, these include 7 Mission-oriented and 8 Management-focused goals with a four-year time horizon.
The following are edited excerpts from Performance.gov.
An earlier post provides excerpts from the seven mission-related cross-agency priority goals. This post provides excerpts from the management-related cross-agency priority goals:
The argument has been made (and made and made) that SxSW is So Over ™. Respectfully, I disagree. It is certainly a corporate event—witness Samsung offering to bring a free, charged battery to anyone whose Samsung device is running low—but that doesn’t mean that governments agencies, whether local, state, or federal, should skip out. Indeed, here are only five things that I learned at the five-day interactive festival:
This week, the Web turned 25. To me, these articles, taken together, tell a story: of where we are, the direction we're headed, and how far we've already come. They also point to hazards we need to avoid and steps we should take to protect values we are in danger not of losing, but of surrendering.
