With only weeks to go in its bid to create a tech-savvy 21st century government, the Obama White House on Wednesday rolled out a retrospective of its digital efforts at government transparency. On the same day, the Obama administration’s top tech officials gathered with more than 1,100 agency staff and industry entrepreneurs at the Open Data Innovation Summit and Solutions Showcase at the Washington Convention Center.

A day after the White House convened an Open Data Innovation Summit to discuss its work to structure and share government data, the GSA unveiled a new effort to highlight emerging data standards and API initiatives across federal, state and local government.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is revamping its repository for agency-funded data to make it easier for partners on international development projects to submit and access frontline information.

To improve financial reporting data, an office within the Treasury Department sees benefits in the government-wide adoption of a global financial data standard known as the Legal Entity Identifier, which would help regulators track and compare data on financial institutions globally.

White House officials championed the Obama administration’s programs and advances in open data at the first White House Open Data Summit as a means of inspiring further open data innovations in the coming years. “We are just running as hard as we can with the baton,” said U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. CTO.

With months left in President Barack Obama's term, top White House officials made a plea to commercial tech professionals: Join the federal government, even if briefly.

The White House's top data official thinks connecting data professionals to each other could organically grow federal analytics programs across agencies.

As the Obama administration comes to a close, the White House is seeking to highlight progress it's made to open and use data over the past eight years — while pushing those inside and outside government to continue the momentum. One way it's are doing that is through their first White House Open Data Innovation Summit set for Sept. 28, which will be co-hosted by the Office of Management and Budget, the Small Business Administration and the Data Foundation.

The Data Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation are teaming up to hold the “Great California Database Hunt” on Saturday, coordinating a daylong campaign of volunteers around the country to sift through the inventories of enterprise systems that each local government agency in the state maintains.

Data Transparency 2016 (DT2016), the Data Foundation’s fourth annual open data policy conference, will convene at the Washington Convention Center on Sept. 28. As in previous years, the conference “will bring together government leaders, transparency advocates, and the technology industry to transform government information from disconnected documents into open data.”

The Data Foundation, the sister organization of the Data Coalition that launched this winter, is teaming up with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation to hold a “California Database Hunt.”

Data Coalition executive director and interim director of the Data Foundation Hudson Hollister discussed the countdown to DATA Act compliance and the results of his new report, “The DATA Act: Vision and Value.”

Since the act's introduction, Hudson Hollister, executive director at the Data Coalition — the Data Foundation’s sister organization — has rallied to propel the DATA Act forward. The new report, jointly published by the foundation and MorganFranklin Consulting, stresses benefits while underscoring deadlines and likely routes for progress so agencies can begin publishing spending data by May 2017.

The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) has far-reaching government benefits as well as hurdles that must be addressed to ensure its success, according to authors of the research paper “The Data Act: Vision and Value.”