Ninety percent of policymakers, open data experts, and private sector leaders believe that the standardization and publication of government data relating to their field has improved to at least some extent over the last few years, according a report from the Data Foundation and Grant Thornton.
Obama White House Makes Big Final Push for Enduring IT Reforms
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.
Federal leaders tout possibilities at Data Transparency summit
There were no mosh pits or wailing guitar solos, but when it comes to the enthusiasm for the future of open data, Data Transparency 2016 might as well have been Woodstock. The annual conference highlighting the benefits of data sharing and analytic capability kicked off with a pep rally of sorts, led by Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.
GSA unveils Data Federation portal
USAID revamping data repository
Open data’s journey through an administration
Treasury mulls open identifier system
White House Open Data Innovation Summit: Open Data's Full Potential Is Just Being Realized
White House Officials Celebrate the Future of Open Data
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.
WHITE HOUSE CTO, CIO MAKE PLEA FOR SXSW-STYLE THINKING
HOW THE 'DATA CABINET' COULD BREAK DOWN PROJECT BARRIERS
Hudson Hollister: The challenge of upgrading federal data formats
The government has made progress in opening up its vast stores of data and getting them to flow. But, as 2017 approaches, the government still has lots of data on paper or in formats that aren't machine-readable. So the work continues. In fact, the Data Foundation holds its fourth annual Data Transparency summit this month, and the White House itself will participate.
How officials are trying to make open data gains last
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.
Open data groups plan volunteer search for all data sets maintained by Calif. localities
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.
The White House is joining Data Foundation’s annual #opendata conference
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.”
A bunch of #opengov groups are leading a California ‘database hunt’
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.”
Countdown to data deadline
DATA Act Charts Tangible Path Forward
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.
New Paper Champions the Potential of the DATA Act
D.C. leaders urge civic hackers to throw support behind open data legislation
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.