Data.gov is open-source on GitHub, built with CKAN and WordPress
Nick Sinai · Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 16, 2014 · at 8:06
Nick Sinai, US Deputy CTO, describes how the federal government modernized Data.gov using open-source tools and public GitHub repositories.
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“So we moved it to an open source project. So it's now CCAN and WordPress. It's on GitHub, so you can actually log an issue or put your, put some feedback. We're pushing code, I think every four weeks or so.”
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