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How The U.S. Chief Technology Officer Is Making Data Awesome
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the White House, gave the audience at the 2012 Social Good Summit on Saturday a high-energy lesson in the importance of making government data more useful and available to anyone. Read More »
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International Open Government Data Conference 2012
From July 10-12, the World Bank hosted the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC) in Washington D.C. The event...convened innovators, policy makers, technologists, NGOs, and private sector organizations to talk about challenges and opportunities related to putting open data to work. Read More »
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Is GitHub Government’s Next Big Thing?
With recent attempts from the White House to bring a more agile approach to government technology, U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel’s “Shared First” initiative, released in December, coupled with the federal government’s new digital strategy, the door may slowly be opening to a more widespread public sector collaborative coding environment, such as the one provide by San Francisco-based startup GitHub.
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Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default
President Barack Obama issued an executive order today that aims to make "open and machine-readable" data formats a requirement for all new government IT systems. The order would also apply to existing systems that are being modernized or upgraded. If implemented, the mandate would bring new life to efforts started by the Obama administration with the launch of Data.gov four years ago. Read More »
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Obama touts free and Open Data, says it creates jobs
As the government cuts its own employment, federal agencies are trying to stimulate job creation by making vast amounts of government data freely available. Read More »
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OHNews 2013 Readers Choice: Most visited 'Open Data' sources of Health Information
As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'Open Health' movement continues to grow and strengthen. Each month, the number of new 'open data' web sites and resources increases. Read More »
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Open Access Allows Scholars To Find Information On Nearly Anything
...When the U.S. government funds research through the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, the researchers usually publish the results of their work in professional journals. But subscriptions to professional journals are costly...Celebrating Open Access Week was an opportunity to talk publicly about what it takes to see that the public actually has access.
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Open Data Executive Order Compliance: The Bad And The Good.
The first major deadline for agency compliance with President Obama's open data Executive Order arrived this past Saturday. Agencies were required to, among other things, provide the Office of Management and Budget with an "Enterprise Data Inventory" and release a list of all their public data via a /data page on their websites. Read More »
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Open Data Policy Coming Nov. 23, Says VanRoekel
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel will release a governmentwide open data policy on Nov. 23, he said Oct. 11 while speaking at the World Government Summit on Open Source in Washington, D.C. Read More »
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Open Government Data And Statistical Data: Haven't We Been Here Before?
The future of the federal statistical system in an era of open government data was the subject of the recent Association of Public Data Users Conference (APDU). It gave me the unique opportunity to pose three questions about the ironic state of federal statistics to an august panel of experts. Read More »
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Open-Source Benefits To Govt Outweigh Misconceptions, Report Says
Security challenges, lack of education, interoperability concerns and licensing and legal concerns are some of the top obstacles government officials see for adopting open-source software in agencies, according to a survey in a recent report from GovLoop. Read More »
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Opening Up the FDA
The President's Executive Order on Open Government Data states, "Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable." Interestingly, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which includes the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), has a tradition of expansive disclosure of information and/or data it generates or collects – contrary to current practices at the FDA. Hopefully, changes being made to 'open up' the FDA will start to accelerate. Read More »
Public Health ACTion (PHACT) 2013 Campaign mobilizes support
The 2013 Public Health Action (PHACT) Campaign is well underway. Check out the Public Health ACTion (PHACT) Campaign web site maintained by the American Public Health Association (APHA). It provides 'open' data and information on public health funding impacts on communities in every state in the U.S. Click on your state to find out where it ranks on public health funding and activities. Read More »
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Public Open Data: The Good, the Bad, the Future
New technology tools, combined with raised expectations among voters and stakeholders for government transparency, have sparked a movement toward “open government.” Read More »
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Q and A: What Feds Can Learn From Cities' Open Data Experiences
Cities hold the largest share of government data in the U.S., covering everything from liquor licenses to teacher performance reviews, but only a handful of cities have released that data to outside researchers and app developers. Read More »
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