There’s all sorts of data that the government has, but very little of it is actually accessible by developers. But the U.S. Government is trying to change that: Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel announced a new initiative within the government to open up data that was previously locked up in government documents and arcane backend systems. That will allow developers to create new applications and services based on that data.
The digital road map is based on the following five ideas:
- Open Data as the new default
- Anywhere, anytime on any device
- Everything should be an API
- Make government data social
- Change the meaning of social participation
