Politics 3.0: Data.gov Launched Today

We at MYD are pretty distracted from our normal blogging duties thanks to a major online campaign we launched on Tuesday.

If I wasn’t busy today connecting with our fans on facebook and supporters on Twitter, I’d write a full post on the newly launched Data.gov. Thankfully, Micah Sifry and Nancy Scola over at techPresident beat me to it:

Speaking on behalf of President Obama and the administration, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett appeared in a web video posted today to announce “an important next step in this historic call to action — one that will help us achieve a new foundation for our government — a foundation built on the values of transparency, accountability, and responsibility.” Today, 120 days after Obama’s call, the White House is launching a new initiative to open government, housed at WhiteHouse.gov/Open. With it comes Data.gov, the new flagship site of the transparent politics movement.

White House Opens Doors on Major Open Government Initiative [techPresident]