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Video: How Open Data Improves Government Collaboration
Check out the 9th installment of our collaboration with Socrata's Open Data TV.
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Obama Shakes Up IT Leadership; Names New Director of White House IT
The Obama administration has tasked a former Facebook engineer with helping modernize White House technology.
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Court: NSA Spying May Continue Even If Congress Lets Authority Expire
The Obama administration could continue collecting American phone records absent lawmaker approval.
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Republican: Net Neutrality Will 'Jeopardize the Open Internet'
All five FCC commissioners face questions from the Senate Commerce Committee.
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New Dashboard Tracks Which Federal Sites You're On, And How You Got There
The U.S. Digital Service, 18F and GSA's Digital Analytics team launched the site Thursday.
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USAID Tech Guru VanRoekel Stepping Down
The former White House CIO joined USAID to help apply technology to the Ebola fight.
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Senators Want to Speed Adoption of Electronic Health Records Systems
Lawmakers discussed how to make electronic health record systems talk to each other.
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Computers Can Now Predict Violent Outbreaks Around the World
Statistical and computer models are identifying possible causes of conflict, raising hopes of prevention, and potentially providing guidance on safety and stability for development work.
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Bipartisan Drone Privacy Bill Back on the Table
Reps. Ted Poe and Zoe Lofgren are reintroducing legislation that would limit how the U.S. government can use drones to spy on American citizens.
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DHS looking for wider bio-data feed
The National Biosurveillance Integration Center wants a source that can aggregate a minimum of 50,000 online data sources every 12 hours.
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Rise of the Data Chiefs: Meet the Federal Officials Aiming to Usher in Government’s ‘Golden Age’ of Data
Nextgov sat down with five recently appointed agency chief data officers across government to discuss the mission of the agency CDO and whether there’s room in the federal organizational chart for yet another “chief.”
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Timeline: Rise of the Chief Data Officer
Charting the evolution of the government's open data movement.
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Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Niall Brennan, CMS
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Niall Brennan, chief data officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Dan Morgan, Transportation
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Dan Morgan, chief data officer for the Transportation Department.
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Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Deputy CDO Lynn Overmann, Commerce
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Lynn Overmann, deputy chief data officer at the Commerce Department.
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Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Brandon Pustejovsky, USAID
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Get to Know a Chief Data Officer: Scott Shoup, FEMA
Nextgov sat down with five agency chief data officers across government. Read edited excerpts with Scott Shoup, chief data officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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UK, US Most Committed in G8 to Unleashing Data
A new ranking finds the United Kingdom most committed to a G8 Open Data Charter, with Canada and the United States tied for second place.
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Senate looks at interoperability for electronic health records
Experts tell committee that business models, not technology, are the main obstacle to better sharing across systems.
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