Fall 2008 Course Description
Policy Research Project
This course fulfills requirements for the following specialization(s):
- Technology, Innovation, and Information Policy
- Public Management and Leadership
Description: The Interactive Federal Budget Project is a Policy Research Project aimed at preparing and delivering a new Presidential policy initiative, for the next White House, that will turn the U.S. federal budget into an interactive, open standards data source available on the Internet. Students in the PRP will be investigating and preparing the plan for how to do this, integrating the process of how the budget is managed in Congress with open data standards and public application programming interfaces (APIs). Technical knowledge is helpful but not required.
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