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President Trump Signs into Law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 16 2019, @01:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the Information-wants-to-be-free dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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/

exaeta writes:

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://www.datainnovation.org/2019/01/open-government-data-act-signed-into-law-establishes-u-s-as-leader-in-open-data/

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:06PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:06PM (#787566)

    For transparency it is required to actually know what is going on. Since Trump changes his mind continuously and flips and reverses positions carefully laid out by his staff with a single Tweeted lie, reverse again to find actual policy. Transparency also requires honesty, the single virtue that Trump (and anyone who ends up working for him) is absolutely incapable of. Aside from that, they may live in the clearest pond in the country but the biggest catfish there flops his tail to muddy up everything with such regularity the waters are more than opaque.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:45AM (#787691)

    He says outright that he doesnt know the meaning of the word permanent, so you can expect him to flip flop on anything and everything constantly. He just baffles you because you don't understand people like that.

    Mr. Trump: You never know, you know again, the word—– I don’t know what the word permanent means, OK? I never know what the word permanent means.