Taking On Open Gov One IT Hurdle at a Time

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Taking On Open Gov One IT Hurdle at a Time


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What are the challenges to open-government initiatives?

34% Management resistance to transparency

16% Absence of a proven infrastructure model for fed-citizen exchanges

16% Lack of communication to public on how citizens can interact with agencies electronically

12% Competing IT funding priorities

10% Legacy systems and data that make sharing data tricky

10% Conflicts with requirements to protect personally identifiable information

2% Lack of tags on data, making comparative and cross-government analyses difficult

SOURCE: MeriTalk survey, March 2010

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