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Civic Commons is an independent non-profit organization focused on reducing government IT costs by helping government entities share code and best practices. The project is a coordinated effort between Code for America, OpenPlans, and the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Federal IT Dashboard
The Federal IT Dashboard was launched in June of 2009 as a government transparency initiative. According to US CIO Vivek Kundra, it was "a website where you could track $80 billion of IT spending annually." The dashboard allows the office of the CIO to oversee thousands of IT projects across 27 federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Education. Initially it was only available to the federal government, which used the dashboard to monitor project effectiveness and decide the allocation of resources. With help from the Civic Commons initiative, the IT dashboard was made freely available to all government entities in March 2011.

Board of Advisors
Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York State Senate Brian Behlendorf, Director, CollabNet Bryan Sivak, CTO, District of Columbia Carolyn Lawson, Director, E-Services for the State of California Chris Vein, CIO, City of San Francisco David Eaves, Adjunct Professor, Centre for Digital Media Deborah Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager, Oregon State University Open Source Lab Gunnar Hellekson, Co-Chair, Open Source for America Jennifer Pahlka, Founder and Executive Director, Code for America Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, OpenPlans Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

Category:Local government in the United States Category:Nonprofit technology Category:Free software projects