This falls under the category of maybe a very good idea:
The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of “high value” government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as President Barack Obama had promised it would be.
Any stride toward transparency in government is praiseworthy. Still, it’s an open question what sort of information will end up on the government’s data.gov site as a result of this order. The site currently “offers more than 1,000 sets of data, but some are merely archived lists of government press releases.”
