Data Transparency Coalition launches today!
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Hudson Hollister
Apr 16, 2012, 10:30:06 AM4/16/12
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Friends:
This morning we're launching the Data Transparency Coalition, which will bring together technology companies and nonprofits to support federal data reform. Too often, federal data is not published online at all, or published in outdated, inconsistent formats that make it difficult to use. The Data Transparency Coalition will lobby Congress and the executive branch to standardize the government's identifiers and markup languages - technologies that will make spending data, regulatory filings, legislative actions fully searchable, government-wide.
Our coalition includes market leaders and brand-new start-ups, and leading financial reporting providers from the United States, France, and India. We're pleased to welcome former Recovery Board chairman Earl Devaney, former U.S. deputy CTO Beth Noveck, XBRL US president Campbell Pryde, Jim Harper of the Cato Institute and Eric Gillespie of Viano Capital to our board of advisors.
Our work will start with a campaign for the House passage of the DATA Act, which will deliver accurate, complete, searchable information on federal spending to the public for the first time. But it won't end there. Other types of federal information need to be standardized too - program performance, corporate disclosures, Congressional resolutions, judicial documents, and more. Our coalition will pursue comprehensive federal data reform.
We'll also work to connect innovators in the private sector with government data problems. Our members' products and services can automatically standardize messy data compilations, instantly find indicators of wasteful spending and fraudulent behavior, and use open data to help people make better decisions. We'll host some amazing demonstrations on our website.
We need your help.
-Please help me spread the word about our launch. You'll find our press release here and our introductory video here. Blog about 'em!
-Help us build our audience for the campaign for federal data reform. Every Facebook Like and every Twitter follow counts.
-We continue to seek members and funding! If you find yourself in the sudden possession of a tech company or a nonprofit that cares about government transparency - call me.
Thanks, and stay in touch.
Hudson
Hudson Hollister
Executive Director, Data Transparency Coalition
datacoalition.org
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312-493-7533
This morning we're launching the Data Transparency Coalition, which will bring together technology companies and nonprofits to support federal data reform. Too often, federal data is not published online at all, or published in outdated, inconsistent formats that make it difficult to use. The Data Transparency Coalition will lobby Congress and the executive branch to standardize the government's identifiers and markup languages - technologies that will make spending data, regulatory filings, legislative actions fully searchable, government-wide.
Our coalition includes market leaders and brand-new start-ups, and leading financial reporting providers from the United States, France, and India. We're pleased to welcome former Recovery Board chairman Earl Devaney, former U.S. deputy CTO Beth Noveck, XBRL US president Campbell Pryde, Jim Harper of the Cato Institute and Eric Gillespie of Viano Capital to our board of advisors.
Our work will start with a campaign for the House passage of the DATA Act, which will deliver accurate, complete, searchable information on federal spending to the public for the first time. But it won't end there. Other types of federal information need to be standardized too - program performance, corporate disclosures, Congressional resolutions, judicial documents, and more. Our coalition will pursue comprehensive federal data reform.
We'll also work to connect innovators in the private sector with government data problems. Our members' products and services can automatically standardize messy data compilations, instantly find indicators of wasteful spending and fraudulent behavior, and use open data to help people make better decisions. We'll host some amazing demonstrations on our website.
We need your help.
-Please help me spread the word about our launch. You'll find our press release here and our introductory video here. Blog about 'em!
-Help us build our audience for the campaign for federal data reform. Every Facebook Like and every Twitter follow counts.
-We continue to seek members and funding! If you find yourself in the sudden possession of a tech company or a nonprofit that cares about government transparency - call me.
Thanks, and stay in touch.
Hudson
Hudson Hollister
Executive Director, Data Transparency Coalition
datacoalition.org
--
312-493-7533
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