Only 8 percent of congressional staffers think information technology in Congress is as good as or better than the private sector, according to an OpenGov Foundation poll of 122 congressional staffers conducted on the bipartisan social networking app Cloakroom.
Projects like the one announced by Ryan could help change that, said Seamus Kraft, executive director of the OpenGov Foundation and a former Hill staffer. The next step will be figuring out how legislators can maximize use of this data to be more efficient, Kraft said.
“We haven’t really started scratching the surface on connecting the benefits of open data and open legislative data to everything else that happens inside of the institution,” Kraft said.
For the future, Kraft said he hopes the project will be open source and have a playbook to aid state and local governments that are following in Congress’ footsteps.
“That’s ultimately where I’d love to see this go and you know I think, under Speaker Ryan, there’s a chance of that happening,” he said.
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