NASA Celebrates the United States’s Entry into the Open Government Partnership

On his first day in office, President Obama signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, launching the Open Government Initiative and making openness a high priority for the Administration. Over the past two years, federal agencies have worked hard to make information about how government works more accessible to the public, to solicit citizens’ participation in government decision-making, and to collaborate with all sectors of the economy on new and innovative solutions to difficult issues of national importance.
In support of the Open Government Initiative, NASA released its Open Government Plan on April 7, 2010, announcing more than 150 milestones related to integrating Open Government into the agency’s programs and projects. In April 2011 we released a new infographic and dashboard to communicate the progress in becoming more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. In August, NASA created the new http://open.nasa.gov blog to highlight the agency’s Open Government success stories. The site is a collaborative blog for the open government community to highlight the ways that transparency, participation, and collaboration are being embraced throughout the agency. Earlier this month, in order to improve access to the ever-increasing number of NASA tools and datasets, we created http://data.nasa.gov – a directory of NASA ...