The report, released by data management company Splunk on Tuesday, reinforces the fact that the public sector lags private industry not only in adopting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and edge computing but also in readiness for what the report calls the “Data Age.”
Just as frail and threatened buildings can be buttressed by external supports, we need to build a set of data buttresses to support a frail and threatened infrastructure. When our data collection and analysis systems were established in the last century, no one foresaw the unimaginable amounts of information that could be used to validate and verify official enumeration.
The Effective Data Governance: A Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers report – jointly conducted by the Data Foundation, Grant Thornton Public Sector LLC, and Qlik – surveyed current Federal CDOs to determine the state of their roles following enactment of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act last year that mandates Federal government data management modernization.
Federal chief data officers generally know what’s expected of them by law, but a little more than half of those surveyed by the Data Foundation said they know how to succeed in their relatively new roles.
At “Open Data Day DC” — a gathering of civic hackers hosted by the open data advocates at the Data Foundation and data portal vendor Socrata — staffers with several city agencies implored attendees to throw their support behind pending legislation to make the city's data more available to the public.
The South Capitol Hill-based Data Coalition (previously the Data Transparency Coalition), an open data trade association, announced the launch of sister organization last week. Meet Data Foundation.
The Data Transparency Coalition is changing its name to Data Coalition and opening a new research center as it gathers steam to push to standardize and publish all government information as open data. The coalition is also launching the Data Foundation, the nation’s first industry-focused open data research organization. The goal: promoting the benefits of transforming government information into standardized, open data.
