<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas<br />|   from the i-see-what-you-did-there  dept.<br />|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 20, @09:39 (Businesses)<br />|    with 242 comments<br />|   <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />theodp  writes "ZDNet reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's<br />office issued  a [0]fact sheet during her visit to India confirming that<br />[1]the U.S. and  India will be working together to develop an open source<br />version of the  Data.gov project, which was launched in 2009 by<br />[2]off-to-Harvard Federal CIO  Vivek Kundra to serve as a [3]central<br />repository of data collected by the US  government. The Hindu Business<br />Line notes that Clinton was also pressed to  [4]exempt Indian techies in<br />the States on H-1B or L1 visas from US social  security taxes, an<br />exemption that, if granted, could reportedly result in  savings of at<br />least a billion dollars for the country's software  industry."<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/20/1321231/Hillary-Clinton-Takes-Datagov-Overseas?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168740.htm">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/168740.htm</a><br /> 1. <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/india-and-us-to-work-together-on-datagov-and-against-cyber-crime/633">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/india-and-us-to-work-together-on-datagov-and-against-cyber-crime/633</a><br /> 2. <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/2224240/Vivek-Kundra-Quits-As-Federal-CIO</a><br /> 3. <a href="http://www.data.gov/">http://www.data.gov/</a><br /> 4. <a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2260263.ece">http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article2260263.ece</a></p>