Website: Recovery.gov

Recovery.gov is the new website of the President Barack Obama’s Administration. I was so happy to see this rescue-pack for evidencing expenses of the federal government, because now we know where our money is going. For example, $288 billion for Tax Relief, $111 billion for Infrastructure and Science, $59 billion for Health Care, $53 billion for Education and Training, $43 billion for Energy and $8 billion for other expenses. Even we don’t know exactly what kind of expense at least we’re clear about President Obama’s Stimulus Economy Plan, which is more real and hopeful for us.

Internet as Media is very close to our real life. It is exciting to know how much money they have budgeted for each department. Recovery.gov gives us the opportunity to check and to know how much they would spend on each concrete project (eg. repairs of highways). We are able to search data in the each State, Federal Agencies, congressional districts, Federal Contactors or other areas in social life (eg. repairs of schools).

In the future we will have the possibilities of commenting each expense and sending full text commentary and photos concerning projects financed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This makes more real the prophecy proclaimed by Marshall McLuhan vision of life as a “global village”. I believe this program allows for evaluation and information gathering.