Office of the Press Secretary

“ Federal Register 2.0, which can be accessed at GPO.gov or data.gov, will open the curtains on the inner workings of government and vastly increase the Federal Register’s usefulness to the American public.
“Today's launch simplifies access to the Federal Register and furthers the President's call to engage all Americans in the workings of government. We envision countless market innovations to ensure each voice is heard on the issues Americans care about the most,” said Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer. ”

“ The change is the latest element of an Administration-wide commitment to Open Government that already has resulted in the launch of such transparency tools as Open for Questions, which gave Americans across the nation a direct line to the Administration to ask exactly what they wanted to know about the Administration’s efforts to get the economy back on track and the IT Dashboard, which allows anyone with a web browser to track federal IT initiatives and hold the government accountable for progress and results. ”

“ Moreover, the change opens the door for innovative entrepreneurs to develop new apps that will allow the public to parse the Federal Register in new ways. For example, Princeton's Center for Information Technology is launching FedThread.org, a version of the Federal Register that allows users to annotate and comment in the margins to spark online discussions about pending governmental actions, and Public.Resource.org has created a new tool to simplify searching the Federal Register. ”