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September 16 & 17, 2013 | George Washington University – Marvin Center | Washington, DC | More information
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Open Data Going Global
Open Data took another leap forward at the G8 Summit in Long Erne, Northern Ireland, as member countries signed an Open Data Charter to spur the release and use of government-held data to advance economic opportunity, spur innovation, and increase accountability around the world. The Open Data Charter outlines principles that member countries—the US, UK, France, Canada, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan–will act on, including an expectation that all government data will be published openly by default, and that signatories will work to increase the quality, quantity, and re-use of released data. Read more here.
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Will PRISM Hinder State and Local Open Data Efforts?
In recent years, many state and local governments have put effort into open data projects that would inspire developers to create apps and find ways to use public data to bring value to their communities. So news of PRISM, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) online spying tool leaked by former CIA employee Edward Snowden, angered a lot of people and began a debate about the role of open data. Some state and local government leaders are just hoping that this news doesn’t sour people on the idea of open data and the positive things it can do. Read more here.
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US Department of Labor Announces More Than $6 Million in Grants to States to Improve the Link Between Workforce and Education Data
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced $6.4 million in grants for the third round of the Workforce Data Quality Initiative, which is designed to improve the quality and availability of workforce data. These funds will enable six additional states to build or expand databases that integrate workforce data and create linkages to education data in order to enhance the effectiveness of employment and training programs. The grantees include four states that will begin to develop their longitudinal databases (Kansas, Oregon, North Carolina and Wyoming) and two states that intend to expand work already initiated on their databases (Ohio and Virginia). Information gathered through this initiative will be used to develop tools to help users learn about the benefits of the publicly-funded workforce system. Read more here.
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Census Bureau Budget Update
On March 26, 2013, the President signed the FY 2013 budget bill. The Census Bureau’s FY 2013 enacted discretionary budget is $858 million, $112 million or 11 percent below the President’s request of $970 million. The enacted budget reflected specific cuts to selected periodic programs as well as across the board sequestration and rescission reductions to each of the Census Bureau’s fifteen program budgets. The Department of Commerce submitted individual bureau spend plans to the Congress in May and the spend plans were finalized on June 13, 2013. Read more here.
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Innovators Address the Wage Gap with Apps and Open Data
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Equal Pay Act by President Kennedy, President Obama recognized innovators who have used open government data to build tools that address the wage gap. That gap has grown considerably smaller since the Kennedy era, but it has not disappeared. To address this challenge, the Equal Pay Task Force and the U.S. Department of Labor put out a call to build applications and tools that use publicly available open government wage data and other online resources to educate users about the pay gap and to promote equal pay. Read more here.
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Commerce’s Economic Data Is a Goldmine for Small Businesses
Public data is a valuable national asset whose value is multiplied when it is made easily accessible to the public. The Department of Commerce makes available to small businesses economic data that are important for key business decisions such as where to locate, where to manufacture a product and where to sell that product. Read more here.
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New Tools to Help the Hungry and Malnourished
Following the publishing of a new series on maternal and child nutrition in the medical journal The Lancet, governments, donors, non-profits, academia, and the private sector came together to focus on undernutrition at events in London and Washington, DC. The US and the UK governments also announced they are seeking partners to launch a Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative this fall to increase the quality, quantity, and timeliness of available data that can help support agriculture and nutrition efforts, and also increase the number and diversity of stakeholders who are applying data-based solutions to improve agriculture and nutrition. Read more here.
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Notable Data Publications
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Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
- 2013 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (July 18, 2013)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Market Surveys (July 12, 2013)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Standardized Form for Collecting Information Regarding Race and Ethnic Data (July 18, 2013)
Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice
- National Drug Threat Survey (July 18, 2013)
Economic Research Service, USDA
- Survey on Rural Community Wealth and Health Care Provision (August 16, 2013)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Reporting of Flow Volume and Capacity by Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines (August 16, 2013)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Fruits, Nut, and Specialty Crops (July 15, 2013)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- NHTSA Distracted Driving Survey Project (July 18, 2013)
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