[okfn-discuss] White House Initiative - Open Data Policy

Mon May 13 09:50:32 UTC 2013

Yes, it's really good :-) There was a summary post up on Friday:

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/10/government-data-open-and-machine-readable-by-default-announces-president-obama/

And we'll be following up with some further analysis. If folks have
any thoughts very interested to hear them!

Rufus

On 13 May 2013 10:12, Smarthart <mark.lizar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> MAKING OPEN AND MACHINE READABLE THE NEW DEFAULT FOR GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-
>
> Lots of good stuff in here, like:
>
> (b) Agencies shall implement the requirements of the Open Data Policy and
> shall adhere to the deadlines for specific actions specified therein. When
> implementing the Open Data Policy, agencies shall incorporate a full
> analysis of privacy, confidentiality, and security risks into each stage of
> the information lifecycle to identify information that should not be
> released. These review processes should be overseen by the senior agency
> official for privacy. It is vital that agencies not release information if
> doing so would violate any law or policy, or jeopardize privacy,
> confidentiality, or national security.
>
>
> Very Kewl..
>
>
> - Mark
>
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