DATA Act on House Floor Today
Posted by Jim Harper
The DATA Act (H.R. 2146) gets a vote on the House floor today. The folks at the Data Transparency Coalition have put together a video to illustrate the problem, and this particular solution. We wrote more about the DATA Act in a post entitled: “The GSA Scandal: How to Fix It, How Not to Fix [...]
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Data Transparency Coalition Debuts Today
Posted by Jim Harper
Meet the Data Transparency Coalition. The Washington Post‘s Capitol Business blog reports this morning: A small but growing collection of companies has formed a coalition that will push the federal government to establish a standard system by which agencies categorize their data. … “Our members understand that if the government identified its data elements in [...]
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