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APDU Webinar:
Public Policy Opportunities and Challenges for Public Data
October, 31, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
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With the Government Shutdown of 2013 over, public data advocates can return to educating lawmakers on the importance of their work. In advance of Data Innovation Day 2014, this webinar will provide an overview of the major policy issues at both the state and national levels affecting public data collection and use.
Presenter:
Daniel Castro, Director, Center for Data Innovation, and Senior Analyst, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
Pricing: FREE
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Big Data, Chief Data Officers and the Promise of Performance
As governments have worked over the past decade or so to take advantage of the dramatic opportunities offered by the Internet and other emerging technologies, the position of chief information officer has become pervasive. Today, however, public executives are struggling with a new challenge: unlocking the potential of big data, the increasingly commonplace data sets too large and complex for traditional data processing systems. Read more here.
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FOIA Summit by the Numbers
On October 10 – 11, OpenTheGovernment.org kicked off an effort to create a more vibrant and better coordinated effort to make the FOIA work better for the public. Items on the agenda included creating a vision for the Office of Government Information Services, the FOIA Ombudsman; making more records available without having to file a FOIA request; making sure agencies are not over-applying exemptions; and improving the federal government’s record keeping practices. Read more here.
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Global Slavery Mapped
Modern day slavery directly affects 29 million people in the world today – that’s according to a new index which has sought to look at this empirically by measuring the prevalence of slavery by population, child marriage and human trafficking on a country by country basis. Read more here.
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How Michigan Got Better at Counting Homeless Veterans
Homeless veterans are notoriously difficult to count. Michigan found a way to test the accuracy of its numbers and deepen the state’s understanding of veteran homelessness today. Read more here.
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Who Are the Most Social Publishers on the Web?
A new ranking of the “most social” media publishers on the web puts BuzzFeed and the BBC at the top. See which sites performed best in August for Facebook interactions and sharing on Twitter. Read more here.
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Wickr Releases Self-Destructing Data App
Founded by an organizer of the hacker convention Def Con, the new Wickr app brings “top secret communication tools to the family.” All eight of the co-founder’s children are under Facebook age, so she wanted to bring additional security to increase her comfort level during online searches. Through Wickr’s security use of encrypted messages, private messages and pictures cannot be traced or archived. 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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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we’ll include it here.
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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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- There were no Calls for Comment of note this week
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National Academies Seminar:
CNSTAT: Understanding Immigration—Measuring Flows, Stocks, and Economic Effects
October 25, 2013
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National Academy of Sciences Main Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
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Department Of Justice Meeting:
Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Federal Advisory Committee
October 30, 2013
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport
2399 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA
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