Stimulus bill requires RSS feeds of how the money is spent - Boing Boing

Wow - this is cool. We should check to see even if our young guys like Rahul gandhi and Omar Abdullah can adopt tech well. Where is the incentive though. The incentive is probably recognition from the public for efficiency. Or am I being too naive again.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/21/stimulus-bill-requir.html

Now this is a pretty promising step on the path to open government: the new stimulus bill has a requirement for RSS-based disclosure of funds dispersed:

   For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.