To explore the success of President Obama's December 8, 2009 Open Government Directive, OpenTheGovernment.org recently completed audits of U.S. Government agencies' open government plans. Receiving high marks were NASA for "inviting the public to collaborate in the development of technologies that are core to its mission" and Health and Human Services for planning to identify and publish high value data sets this year. The report also praises the Labor Department for making "significant amounts of information publicly accessible" and opening new platforms for potential internal and external collaboration, and the Department of Energy for improving on its Open Energy Information platform. However, the Department of Energy was also included in the group receiving the five lowest scores. Ranked from the best of the worst to the worst of the worst are the Department of Treasury, the Department of Defense, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Justice.
Agencies have until the end of May to revise their plans. In early June OpenTheGovernment.org will review the plans again to ascertain agencies' responses to the audits.
A full list showing how agencies' plans rank is available from http://bit.ly/OGovRank. The full audit results and links to agency evaluations are available from http://bit.ly/OGovEvals.
