New: Public Domain Government IT Spending Dashboard!

Wow!

Get this, there’s a new web site that looks to have been built using the Open Source Drupal CMS (At least the blog portion did when I looked at the XHTML) as the front-end which lets anyone see a “dashboard” of spending on Government IT projects:

It has been an exciting time since we launched the IT Dashboard. There have been more than 20 million hits so far…

20 Million hits? I hadn’t heard about this. Had you? It gets even better.

For anybody just joining us, the “IT Dashboard” is a new, one-stop clearing house of information that allows anyone with a web browser to track … IT initiatives and hold the government accountable for progress and results.

Bloody hell. That’s amazing!

Where’s the catch?

Ahh. You sussed it.

President Obama checks his performance.

Yep. It’s in the USA, at a site called USA Spending.

Come on Gordon. Let’s see how you are REALLY doing with spending on IT in Education, the NHS or Defence…

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