Social Government

A weekly recap of news and stories.

President Obama today announced former District of Columbia Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra will be the new federal chief information officer. Rumors had been swarming recently that Kundra, 34, would be appointed as the first federal CTO — a position that remains vacant.
Nevertheless, Kundra’s announcement is great news. He really likes the iPhone and Web [...]

When President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into law Tuesday, he announced that Recovery.gov, a Web site he first spoke about last month, was live. The new Web site is committed to transparently showing citizens where all of the $787 billion in the stimulus package is being spent.
While I applaud [...]

The ever-popular Gov Gab blog from our friends at the General Services Administration was very active in the month of January, due in large part to President Obama’s inauguration.
Seven posts out of 33 for the month were tagged with “inauguration.” Other popular tags dealt with the salmonella peanut scare, government resources for kids on the [...]

Correction: It turns out this account is a phony, PC World reports. However, the questions raised by this article still remain legitimate.
The White House Twitter account has been dry since the 29th minute of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Its last tweet, made at 12:29 p.m. on Jan. 20 was auto-posted via Twitterfeed and came from the White [...]

It finally looks like the Obama Administration has made good on a campaign promise: allowing for public comment on non-emergency pieces of legislation before the president signs them. While the public was overlooked last week when President Obama signed the S. 181 — the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, it looks like the [...]