Washington, D.C. – Today, President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). The package passed Congress on Monday, December 31, 2018.
The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default. It establishes Chief Data Officers (CDO) at federal agencies, as well as a CDO Council.
https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/
OPEN Government Data Act passes.
The OPEN Government Data Act will ensure that the federal government releases valuable data sets, follows best practices in data management, and commits to making data available to the public in a non-proprietary and electronic format.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:35AM (3 children)
Let's hope he can do the same for scientific journals (if that falls under his purview)
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @08:33AM (1 child)
Sorry, but there aren't enough pictures in scientific journals for him to care about them.
I hear his next target is Honest Information for Placemat Puzzle Adventures (HIPPA).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @06:31PM
Good. So long as he doesn't touch HIPAA.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday January 16 2019, @07:20PM
Are you kidding? He wouldn't have signed *this* one if someone had told him about the "Evidence-based" thing in advance.