Digital Government

Commerce's Chief Data Officer on Leading 'America's Data Agency'

Data guru Ian Kalin says he won't measure success in a “stereotypical bureaucratic fashion.”

Digital Government

Commerce: Tell Us What You Want From Our Data

Crowdsourcing is a key part of Commerce's open data efforts.

Digital Government

Data-Centric Jobs Already Flourish in the Federal Government

All told, there are some 1.6 million government workers (including state and local) in positions where data is “central to the job,” according to a recent Commerce Department report.

Digital Government

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.

Digital Government

Commerce Department's New Chief Data Officer No Stranger to Data

Ian Kalin, a former presidential innovation fellow, steps into the role as Commerce's first chief data officer.

Digital Government

Census Needs to Straighten Out Plans for 2020 Internet Option, Watchdog Says

Five years before the Census is expected to implement its Internet-response tool, GAO has already noticed a handful of glaring blunders.

Digital Government

Commerce Department Launches Private Sector Data Brain Trust

The members of the newly created Data Advisory Council stem from some of the private sector’s leading tech companies.

Cybersecurity

Fake Dot-Gov Webmail Used in Phishing Scam to Hack EPA and Census Staff

Nigerian admits breaching employee email accounts to order agency office products that he then sold on the black market.