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, Collaboration and Coalescence
The 8th installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
Digital Government
Video: Open Data and Improving Quality of Life
The seventh installment in our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
Digital Government
Why the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Has Eyes on the Arctic
NGA’s focus on the North Pole could allow the agency to go even more open source.
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 a More Effective, More Efficient Government
The fourth 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.
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