Open Government Timeline
45 days—January 22, 2010
- Completed: Designate a high-level senior official to be accountable for Federal spending information publicly disseminated (Date Completed: 1/14/2010)
- Completed: Identify and publish online, in an open format, at least three high-value data sets (Date Completed: 1/22/2010)
60 days—February 6, 2010
- Completed: Launch the URL for the www.dot.gov/open site (Date Completed: 1/14/2010)
- Completed: Launch content related to the DOT Open Gov Methodology, an overview of the DOT Open Gov Plan, and milestones for the DOT Open Gov Initiative (Completion Date 1/22/2010)
- Completed: Provide contact information for DOT Open Government designated representative and create DOT Open Government email account (Completion Date 1/29/2010)
- Completed: Provide information about DOT datasets and provide a mechanism for citizens to provide input about which information to prioritize for publication (Completion Date 2/5/2010)
- Completed: Launch the Citizen Engagement Tool opendot.ideascale.com to solicit feedback and ideas (Completion Date: 2/5/2010)
- Completed: Create an Open Government Webpage located at www.dot.gov/open that contains methods for public feedback on data, published information, and the DOT Open Gov Plan (Completion Date 2/5/2010)
120 days—April 7, 2010
- Completed: Develop Open Government Methodology to guide Open Government planning effort at DOT (Date Completed: 12/15/2009)
- Completed: Draft template for the DOT Open Gov Plan (Date Completed: 1/15/2010)
- Completed: Finalize staffing assignments and convene working groups (Date Completed: 1/22/2010)
- Completed: Publish updated content to www.dot.gov/open related to transparency initiatives that will be included in the DOT Open Gov Plan:
- Congressional Requests for Information (Date Completed: 2/19/2010) (existing site: http://www.dot.gov/ost/govaffairs/)
- Declassification (Date Completed: 2/26/2010) (existing site: http://www.dot.gov/security/declassification.html)
- Freedom of Information Act (Completed Date: 3/12/2010) (http://www.dot.gov/foia/foiaopengov.htm)
- Records Management (Completed Date: 3/12/2010) (http://www.dot.gov/records/)
- Completed: Solicit public feedback for the DOT Open Gov Plan (Date Completed: 3/19/2010)
- Completed: Integrate public feedback for the DOT Open Gov Plan (Date Completed: 4/1/2010)
- Completed: Publish on dot.gov/open the DOT Open Government Plan (Date Completed: 4/7/2010)