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ARRA Treasury Account Symbols: the outcome of our FOIA request

In July, I wrote about why I've been looking for Recovery TAFS and appropriations. In an attempt to get an official list from the US federal government, Eric Kansa and I sent a FOIA letter to OMB to request the release (in electronic form) of a complete and up-to-date list of all Recovery Act (ARRA) […]

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2009 11 23 Raymond Yee government Comments (0)

Web Services for Recovery.gov

Today, my colleagues Erik Wilde, Eric Kansa, and I are pleased to announce our new report "Web Services for Recovery.gov" and its companion website recovery.berkeley.edu.   Last week, the redesign of Recovery.gov was made public to much fanfare.  Recovery.gov is  the U.S. government’s official website for publicly documenting how funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment […]

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2009 10 05 Raymond Yee government
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A clarification of why I'm looking for Recovery TAFS and appropriations

In response to a question I received on a mailing list in response to my query  Does anyone know of a complete and up-to-date list of Recovery Act accounts? concerning why I was looking for amounts appropriated and not just obligated an spent for the Recovery, I wrote the following clarification (which I have edited […]

2009 07 29 Raymond Yee government Comments (2)

Does anyone know of a complete and up-to-date list of Recovery Act accounts?

Does anyone know of a complete and up-to-date list of Recovery Act TAFS — basically a list of all the basic accounts of money flowing from the Recovery Act?  There was one published by ProPublica on April 1, 2009 (from the post Recovery.gov Falling Short of Expectations So Far – ProPublica ) and one buried […]

2009 07 29 Raymond Yee government Comments (0)

Participating in the national online dialogue around recovery.gov

Yesterday, I wrote a story on ProgrammableWeb (An Online Dialogue to Shape Recovery.gov) to educate readers on recovery.gov (the government website aimed to let American track the spending of money arising from the  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — the "Stimulus Package")   and to draw attention to a “national dialogue” this week (until […]

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2009 04 28 Raymond Yee government Comments (1)

Tracking the stimulus/recovery in the news

Over the last couple of months, I've been studying the Stimulus through the lens of the weekly reports published on recovery.gov.   My colleagues Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa (at the School of Information at UC Berkeley) and I  made recommendations on how data feeds should be used to foster transparency around stimulus data,  in addition […]

2009 04 28 Raymond Yee Comments (0)

New OMB guidelines issue for recovery tracking

I will have to get cracking on studying the new Updated Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which came out last Friday, April 3. Here's the news report from recovery.gov on this new set of guidelines: On April 3, 2009, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published Implementing Guidance […]

2009 04 06 Raymond Yee Comments (0)

Some questions about the implementation guidelines for the recovery feeds

A project that Erik Wilde and Eric Kansa (colleagues at the School of Information at Berkeley) and I have started tackling is tracking the flow of money from the Stimulus Package (aka the  American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009).  The Obama Administration has set up recovery.gov to "feature information on how the Act is […]

2009 03 07 Raymond Yee Comments (2)