Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States | E Pluribus Unum

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-23

Summary:

"On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017, in a historic win for open government in the United States of America.

The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act (AKA the OPEN Government Data Act) is about to become law as a result. This codifies two canonical principles for democracy in the 21st century:

  1. public information should be open by default to the public in a machine-readable format, where such publication doesn’t harm privacy or security
  2. federal agencies should use evidence when they make public policy...."

Link:

https://e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/21/congress-made-open-government-data-the-default-in-the-united-states/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.usa oa.legislation oa.data oa.psa oa.government oa.privacy oa.security

Date tagged:

12/23/2018, 10:11

Date published:

12/23/2018, 05:11