White House CIO & CTO Launching Open Government Plan live online at 11AM ET

It's like they're trying to convince us this is a good thing. Instead of just telling us what is available now and what the schedule is.

The President wrote a memo saying he wanted this on his first day and only now do we have a directive. A directive that asks the various departments to make a plan in the next 4 months. So in the end it's going to take over a year and a half to get from the President's memo that he wants this to a first draft of a plan to actually implement it.<p>That right there is what's wrong with Government imho

After they spent 18 million redesigning the recovery.gov website, <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-...</a> resulting in an end product that provides false information <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressio...</a> why should we be optimistic that this isn't just another hole to throw money down? As I recall the recovery site was sold to the people as a step towards open government.