The Federal IT Dashboard is Open Sourced!

As promised, the code for the federal IT Dashboard has now been released to the public as open source software. Any government can use it — for that matter, any contractor can pick up the code and offer deployment or other services based on it, which is a key ingredient for making it usable in practice by governments.

The IT Dashboard has been one of the best-known federal open government initiatives since it went live in the summer of 2009. It gives the government and the public an intelligible, visually-oriented overview of how IT investments are performing, thus helping identify projects in need of corrective attention or, in some cases, in need of being axed. In conjunction with the TechStat Toolkit review process, also being announced today, the Dashboard has helped to reduce costs by over $3 billion out of the $80 billion federal IT portfolio.