Obama ordered all government agencies to have a web API
The US President signed the Building a 21st Century Digital Government Memorandum, according to which a certain analogue of the Russian single portal of public services will be created as part of the strategy to create a “full-fledged digital state of the 21st century”.
The memorandum says that the private sector and the federal government, under the influence of new technologies, have fundamentally changed their methods of work, but the time has come to do more: “For too long, the American people were forced to stray information from various government programs in a maze to find the right service. While citizens are increasingly paying bills and buying tickets from mobile devices, government services are often not optimized for smartphones or tablets, if they are available online. ”
“The innovative use of technology has made fundamental changes in the business and everyday life of Americans,” the document says. “The exponential growth of computing power, the spread of high-speed networks and the upcoming mobile revolution have made the Internet a ubiquitous tool, encouraging innovations that spur the emergence of new markets and transform existing ones.”
Earlier, President Obama instructed the US Director of Information Technology to develop a comprehensive government strategy for creating a 21st century digital state (21st century digital Government) that "will better provide electronic services for the American people." And now this strategy has been published .
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Within 12 months, all federal agencies must solve specific, clear-cut tasks, including:
Within 90 days from the date of publication of this memorandum, all agencies are required to create on their website a page at www. [Agency] .gov / digitalstrategy, on which up-to-date information will be published on the status of the tasks performed - in a machine-readable format.
The memorandum says that the private sector and the federal government, under the influence of new technologies, have fundamentally changed their methods of work, but the time has come to do more: “For too long, the American people were forced to stray information from various government programs in a maze to find the right service. While citizens are increasingly paying bills and buying tickets from mobile devices, government services are often not optimized for smartphones or tablets, if they are available online. ”
“The innovative use of technology has made fundamental changes in the business and everyday life of Americans,” the document says. “The exponential growth of computing power, the spread of high-speed networks and the upcoming mobile revolution have made the Internet a ubiquitous tool, encouraging innovations that spur the emergence of new markets and transform existing ones.”
Earlier, President Obama instructed the US Director of Information Technology to develop a comprehensive government strategy for creating a 21st century digital state (21st century digital Government) that "will better provide electronic services for the American people." And now this strategy has been published .
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Within 12 months, all federal agencies must solve specific, clear-cut tasks, including:
- to ensure the publication of information in new ways that "fully realize the potential of the web and mobile technologies";
- launch central online resources for third-party developers, implement new standards for publishing government information in an open and machine-readable format by default;
- use web analytics tools and measure citizen satisfaction.
Within 90 days from the date of publication of this memorandum, all agencies are required to create on their website a page at www. [Agency] .gov / digitalstrategy, on which up-to-date information will be published on the status of the tasks performed - in a machine-readable format.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/145078/
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