As a member of the APDU community, you play a vital role in preserving and improving our nation’s data infrastructure.
This Take Action hub provides tools and resources to communicate the value of public data and advocate for a strong evidence ecosystem, whether you are engaging policymakers or speaking within your professional networks online and in-person.
Incorporate these messages into your communications!
Public data matters
Local, state and federal governments must continue to collect the data that our communities need.
Our world runs on data
Public data is critical to our ability to make informed decisions, from how to determine eligibility for programs to how to calculate the funding formulas needed to distribute government resources
If we can’t see the problems, we can’t solve them
Public data provides insight into some of the biggest, most urgent problems our communities are struggling with.
With data we learn what is working and what is not
Using data, we can track the successes or failures of new policy interventions and keep our governments accountable to their promises.
Innovation is fueled by public data
Data is at the core of the private sector’s success, with businesses using public data to gain strategic advantage and power popular consumer products and services like WeatherBug.
Other Ways to Take Action
Share your story
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Post on social media
Download a graphic by clicking it and saving the larger version and then share it on your social media pages with a message about why public data is important to your work.
