Advocacy groups, individuals get into the government data game

When the Office of Management and Budget announced last spring that it would set up a repository of government data feeds, called Data.gov, a number of other sites appeared aiming to duplicate or even improve on the work that the General Services Administration was doing to create the service. Such duplication of effort might not be a bad thing. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has said that by making agency data available, the government could enlist the public in helping to solve our country's most pressing problems.