At PdF '09 Vivek Kundra demoed for the first time the vision of Data.gov with the IT Dashboard.
Access to Government Data: Discover, Participate, Engage.

Macon Phillips is the Director of New Media for the White House.

On January 21, 2009, President Obama signed the Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Transparency and Open Government—the first memorandum of his presidency. In it, he announced his administration’s commitment to achieving an "unprecedented level of openness in Government.".