Almost three years ago I was pleased to hear presidential candidate Barack Obama talk about making government transparent and ending undue profiteering by people who do business with government. He also told us that he would hold all agencies taking federal funds responsible for maintaining transparency and launched the stimulus bill funds.
In short order we found out that what he wished failed to materialized. Obama was someone that appreciated the developing technology and expounded on the idea that all governmental entities would make use of automation to disclose fund dispersal and expenditures.
Three years later, his expectations remain unfulfilled as the majority of governmental entities refuse to disclose such information as Obama envisioned. Matter of fact, our State underutilizes equipment that it has at their disposal and instead sets up informational website that display mostly hierarchical data with virtually no vital information.
Its truly unfortunate that our State places so little importance in maximizing the use of the technology and is allow to continue without any improvement.
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