Congress wants to turn Obama's open data actions into law

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-15

Summary:

"A new bill introduced Thursday would give a legislative basis to a number of open data initiatives already underway in the federal government under executive order. The Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act, introduced by Reps. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, would build upon a number open data policies from the Obama administration that push federal agencies to make as much data as possible free for the public to use.  A Senate version of the bill will also soon be introduced by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-HI, and Ben Sasse, R-Neb.  Although initiatives are already underway, executive orders can easily by repealed by future administrations ..."

Link:

http://fedscoop.com/open-government-data-act-open-data-barack-obama

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.government oa.usa oa.legislation oa.data

Date tagged:

04/15/2016, 20:18

Date published:

04/15/2016, 16:18