In light of President Obama’s announcement of a new policy to voluntarily disclose White House visitor access records, I’m hoping to see the administration take more steps to expand the use of XML technology standards to aid in creating greater transparency and to create efficiencies for the agencies themselves.

In the aftermath of banking failures, subprime mortgages, and bailouts across multiple industry sectors, it is a good time to examine the strategies it will take to rebuild public trust in our government and in the world’s financial markets. I believe the answer depends both on what we can do and how we do it.

Diane Mueller Appointed to Board of Directors of XBRL International, Dave Raggett Appointed to the XBRL Technical Standards Board.

When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to “democratize” federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public federal information. The idea is to enable the data to be accessed by developers whose applications will open up federal data to the sunlight of millions of citizens by encouraging them to scrutinize how the Recovery Act’s dollars will be spent.

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