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With more than 12 yearse of experience in trackinggovernmenyt spending, Onvia (Nasdaq: ONVI) is givingt away a piece of its usually proprietar data to make the publifc aware of its information-gathering capabilities, said Nate spokesman for the Seattle-based company. “W launched recovery.org to show what we can Wilcox said. Nearly half of Onvia’s 170 employeess are tracking the funding dail y and on the local clipping news stories and collating information to builf a database in anaccessibles format. The signing of the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February promptedd not only theObama administration’s Web site recovery.
gov but also many civix and state sites such as Florida’s flarecovery.com. The appearance of the sites focused on stimulus money is the resul of the growth of Internet access since the 1990ss and a recent emphasis on transparencyg infederal spending, observers