Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Deputy CDO Lynn Overmann, Commerce

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Lynn Overmann, deputy chief data officer at the Commerce Department.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Brandon Pustejovsky, USAID

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Digital Government

Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Scott Shoup, FEMA

Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Scott Shoup, chief data officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Digital Government

UK, US Most Committed in G8 to Unleashing Data

A new ranking finds the United Kingdom most committed to a G8 Open Data Charter, with Canada and the United States tied for second place.

Ideas

It’s Time for a National Chief Data Officers Council

The case for bringing together public data leaders to share best practices and create support and momentum for a national data movement.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Improving Quality of Life

The seventh installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data in the UK

The sixth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Citizen Engagement

The fifth installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data and Fostering Citizen Advocacy

The third installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Digital Government

Video: Open Data Transparency Is Just the Beginning

The second installment in our partnership with Socrata's Open Data TV.

Digital Government

Video: How to Solve an Open Data Problem

The first installment in our video collaboration with Socrata on open data.

Ideas

Moving Beyond the PDF Era: 3 Reasons to Embrace Financial Transparency

President Barack Obama's 2016 budget request reflected the values of data-driven government.

Digital Government

Amid Open Data Push, Agencies Feel Urge for Analytics

Agencies are turning to industry, academia and outside researchers for cutting-edge analytics tools to parse through their data to derive insights.

Digital Government

Survey: Governments’ Pledge to be ‘Open by Default’ Still Mostly a Talking Point

A newly released World Wide Web Foundation survey found more than 90 percent of the polled nations still keep reams of government data hidden from the public.

Digital Government

Here’s What People Did Before They Could Google Things

Before there was Google, there were librarians.

Digital Government

Scientists Have a Sharing Problem

Competition and disorganization within their disciplines prevent many researchers from making their data publicly available, which is stunting scientific progress.