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Open Government Sites Initiated Under Obama Targeted for Closing

OMB prepares for open gov sites to go dark in May: “Government sources confirm that the Office of Management and Budget is planning to take seven websites dark in two months because of a lack of funding. One government official, who requested anonymity because they didn’t get permission to discuss the topic, said funding will begin to run out on April 20 for public sites IT Dashboard, Data.gov and paymentaccuracy.gov. The source said OMB also is planning on shutting down internal government sites, including Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the FEDRamp cloud computing cybersecurity effort. The official said two other sites, USASpending.gov and Apps.gov/now, will run through July 30 but go dark soon after.”

  • More insights into this news, and proposals to save these projects by advocacy groups are detailed by Alex Howard: Congress weighs deep cuts to funding for federal open government data platforms
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