Obama's data.gov CIO quits White House
theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk
Vivek likely won't be the first.
From http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_et_al_budget_sl... : Federal government transparency programs, including data resource directory Data.gov, face across-the-board budget cuts by 75% in the latest version of the federal budget to emerge from Congressional negotiations.
Congress slashed the budget, not the President.
Sunlight Foundation has extensive coverage & ways you can help: http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
Of course, he was CEO of Google then. Now, not so much. I can see him wondering if a career in politics would work. I'm sure he's got enough cash not to care about the finical hit.
They would so not involve moving to dreary old Washington DC to take up a thankless bureaucratic job in an administration that is as likely as not to be over in eighteen months.
Perhaps its just the fact that the US government really goes out of its way to protect its data (remember how much the US government hates Wikileaks and how long it takes to de-classify documents). Why would they up and release data all of a sudden?
Evidence is the currency by which one fulfills burden of proof.
>Why would they up and release data all of a sudden?
You just read an article listing several reasons. All government data is by default public unless related to national security and explicitly upgraded to a higher secrecy level. You could already request to view any of the information being released, but it's cheaper to start moving all public information to one location than to have every agency inconsistently implement its own information handling processes.
It's extremely unlikely the government is coordinating all of its workers to tamper with public disability claims, military recruitment trends, environmental reports, geological surveys, public housing inventories, etc. before posting it on the site.