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Open data order, policy ushers in new norm

President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order and OMB released a new policy requiring agencies to make data machine-readable and use open standards. Agencies must develop an inventory of information and make it publicly available. Good government groups praised the changes but had some concerns around the administration's decision to apply the policy only to structured data.

Tags: technology , Steve VanRoekel , OMB , Patrice McDermott , OpenTheGovernment.org , Digital Government Strategy , John Wonderlich , Sunlight Foundation , Kevin Richards , TechAmerica , Jason Miller

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White House mandates open data, releases new tools

President Barack Obama issued a new policy and signed an Executive Order requiring data to be open, machine-readable and safeguarded.

Tags: technology , OMB , information sharing , Data.gov , Jason Miller

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GSA: Open data is access and accessibility

In open government, dumping information on a website is useless if the users cannot quickly understand what the information means for them.

Tags: Collaboration Center , technology , open government , Dave McClure , Sheila Campbell , GSA

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The state of open data in government: your opinion matters

How do Government stakeholders, mainstream citizens and civic application developers feel about the state of the Open Data movement in government?

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Web inventor discusses importance of open data

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and is now helping federal agencies with opening up their data.

Tags: technology , open government , Gov 2.0 , W3C , Tim Berners-Lee , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

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