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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:16PM
If Trump did champion real, foward-thinking legislation on climate change to lower global atmospheric carbon dioxide we would already be living in upside-down world. Or yes, we'd all look for how he or his family personally makes money off it, or how it says that will occur but in fact sells more of the world to commercial interests that don't care. Because that is the President who has been elected.