Delaware looks to make more contract information available to would-be vendors, California looks to zero in on vendors who have won state contracts.
In the state of Colorado, Governor Bill Ritter and his Economic Recovery Team are working to make sure stimulus dollars are spent wisely and with full transparency. Some states are waiting for the technical specifications to be issued by the Office of Management and Budget. But Colorado is trying to be proactive.
A new OMB memo regarding administrative costs has been issued ahead of more substantive guidance due in June. But according to state and local officials, the price for transparency and accountability will be a complex number to figure.
This week Microsoft released Stimulus360, a solution designed to help public sector agencies track, measure and share information about stimulus-funded projects. Josh Rice, Director of Microsoft’s Public Sector Incubation Team, spoke to CivSource about Stimulus360, measuring the economic impact of the stimulus and the future of open government.
It has been nearly a full seventy-two hours since President Barack Obama and his team of celebrated techies opened the doors of Recovery.gov for improvements. The crowdsourceing experiment is nearly half-finished (or half-full for all you optimists out there) and so a quick recap is in order.
As state and local governments watch their budget pools dry up, they're waiting to see if the stimulus is a mirage. CivSource speaks with Rick Copeland about how Tyler Technologies can help local leaders figure it out.
A more open government could simply be the future of government. Despite technological obstacles, it would seem that government is, in fact, ready for transparency. Once a workable open initiative is implemented and in practice, government-wide, the real test will be to make sure it stays that way for generations and Recovery Acts to come.
Late Friday night, the Office of Management and Budget made good on a promise to release an amended or updated version of its guidance (pdf.) in implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. There were a number of significant updates to the OMB’s guidance, first issued on February 18 (pdf.) of this [...]
Three hundred consultants who have held government contracts in Nevada are now state workers, according to Nevada Controller Kim Wallin. Eight, or more, of them with current contracts totaling roughly $600,000, are also getting regular state paychecks.
Governors fighting “fiscal child abuse”….Trouble brewin’ on the bayou…A watchdog named Chick…Iowa goes over the Rainbow…Michigan’s Hurricane Katrina…NY’s $2 billion Humpty Dumpty… Armageddon strikes Atlanta….World War 3 will start in Minnesota…L.A.’s crime map mess up…
