The Federal Government has already made significant progress in improving its management of information resources to increase
interoperability and openness. The President's Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government instructed agencies to take
specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, patticipation, and collaboration, and the Office of Management
and Budget's (OMB) Open Government Directive required agencies to expand access to information by making it available online
in open formats. OMB has also developed policies to help agencies incorporate sound information practices, including OMB Circular
A-1303 and OMB Memorandum M-06-02. In addition, the Federal Government launched Data.gov, an online platform designed to increase
access to Federal datasets. The publication of thousands of data assets through Data.gov has enabled the development of numerous
products and services that benefit the public.
To help build on these efforts, the President issued a Memorandum on May 23, 2012 entitled Building a 21st Century Digital
Government that charged the Federal Chief lnformation Officer (CIO) with developing and implementing a comprehensive government-wide
strategy to deliver better digital services to the American people. The resulting Digital Government Strategy outlined an
information centric approach to transform how the Federal Government builds and delivers digital services, and required OMB
to develop guidance to increase the interoperability and openness of government information.
