Corinna Turbes
Promising signals from the White House on data ...

The budget proposal addresses core priorities from the Biden campaign and earlier policy announcements from the Administration, including for economic recovery, climate change, and equity.

Promising signals from the White House on data policy in FY 2022 Budget Request
Data Foundation
Promoting trust and transparency in the digital ...

As the volume of cross-border transactions continues to increase, the risk of fraud and criminal activity rises in unison. To combat this, organizations must be able to establish a stakeholder’s legal identity in order to facilitate trust and transparency in transactions worldwide.

Promoting trust and transparency in the digital economy
Data Foundation
Ensuring Meaningful Management and Use of ...

The Data Foundation’s Open Data Standards Task Force has issued recommendations that highlight areas where the federal government can take steps in 2021 to immediately institute improvements to financial regulatory data.

Ensuring Meaningful Management and Use of Financial Regulatory Data: Eight Policy Recommendations for the 2021 Transition
Data Foundation
Coronavirus Likely to Have Long-Term Impacts on ...

The response to COVID-19 using data around the globe suggests that, if societies want to combat future pandemics effectively, it is necessary, to employ new approaches to data governance. This will mean using evidence (data) to lead behavioral change.

Coronavirus Likely to Have Long-Term Impacts on Data Governance Strategies
Nick Hart
2019 in Review: A Year of Change and Growth at ...

Building on the great successes of the Data Foundation’s work in 2019, the next year is certain to bring even more opportunity, growth, and change as the organization launches new initiatives and projects to advance responsible policies for better using government data.

2019 in Review: A Year of Change and Growth at the Data Foundation

Artificial intelligence

Senate’s 2024 AI Push Hinges on Data Policy

Senate’s 2024 AI Push Hinges on Data Policy

The Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Roadmap represents a significant step forward in addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI in the United States. The roadmap was released May 15, 2024 and developed by the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group. It covers a wide range of topics, including supporting U.S. innovation in AI, addressing workforce impacts, managing high-impact uses of AI, safeguarding elections and democracy, addressing privacy and liability concerns, ensuring transparency and intellectual property protection, mitigating AI risks, and leveraging AI for national security.

The Data Foundation recognizes the importance of the Senate's bipartisan efforts to develop a comprehensive framework for AI policy. However, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of data policy as a foundational element in the successful implementation of the roadmap's recommendations. As the Data Foundation has long advocated, the effectiveness of the proposed initiatives will largely depend on the availability of high-quality, accurate, reliable, and securely shared data.

Charting the Future of Data for AI: PCAST Report Outlines Crucial Steps for Data Access and Collaboration

Charting the Future of Data for AI: PCAST Report Outlines Crucial Steps for Data Access and Collaboration

Fulfilling a requirement in the President’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), issued a report examining the importance of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into scientific research to accelerate discovery and address pressing global issues. The report, “Report to the President on Supercharging Research: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Global Challenges,” outlines a proactive strategy for the responsible use of AI to enhance scientific endeavors. PCAST’s strategic blueprint underscores the pivotal role of federal leadership in providing the data necessary to propel innovation and sustain global competitiveness in AI technologies.  

Embracing a New Frontier: Data, AI, and the Evolution of Chief Data Officers

Embracing a New Frontier: Data, AI, and the Evolution of Chief Data Officers

The Chief Data Officer (CDO) role was established by Congress to support federal agencies in  leveraging vast amounts of data as a strategic asset, while also ensuring quality, accessibility, and usefulness for decision-making. But the story of the federal CDOs is taking a fascinating turn as their role evolves to encompass a new frontier: artificial intelligence (AI). 

Why Data Standards Matter in the Age of AI

Why Data Standards Matter in the Age of AI

One way to tame a mess, whether it is a child’s room, a woodshop or a swamp of data, is to have a place to put everything. Data standards do this for data. More importantly, they can do this for generative AI systems, allowing us human beings to address many of the legitimate concerns that have arisen since the widespread release of large language models (LLMs) and their host generative AI (Gen AI) systems like OpenAI ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot™, and Google Bard™.