I spent the last two days at the Personal Democracy Forum. By far, the most important presentation came from the Obama administration's IT folks. They have created
an engine for providing data feeds from Federal departments. It includes GAO and departmental data that drills down to the purchase order level. Adherence to budgets and schedules are part of the base system, as are both contractors AND the contact information for the official responsible for the project.
It's live, it's beta, it's "iterative." They say they launched with 47 data feeds. Now it is over 100,000.
Exciting! And hard to undo by a future administration.
