Emily Feldman at the AALL blog has an update on the EPA hosted public data conversation:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened up a blog seeking comments on improving access to EPA’s environmental information. The blog, the Partner Blog for the National Dialogue, will be open for comments this week, June 9-13, 2008.
The topics open [...]

Add another tally to the list of public conversations about federal data availability. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of Health and Human Services, is hosting another in their series of “Open Door Forums“, to discuss Medicare Part D Data regulations. (See here for CMS’s description of the new rule and [...]

I’ve been writing and rewriting a more formal response to the paper, but I’d like to share my thoughts first, especially as “The Invisible Hand” gets more coverage (with an Ars Technica article today).
First, I’d like to say that I’m delighted to see this topic addressed in an academic setting, and I also see nothing [...]

Something pretty exciting is happening over at honda.house.gov; (Congressman Mike Honda’s Web site). They have posted their new education related legislation on the site, along with justifications, background, endorsements, and even the ability to leave public comments through the blog area of the site.
This approach to introducing and building support for legislation recognizes the [...]

The guys over at Princeton’s new Center for Information Technology Policy wrote a really great paper for the Yale Journal of Law & Technology on the role data should have, compared to websites, in government. It articulates a point that I think many of us subconsciously have had in mind:
“The new administration should specify that [...]

The current Harper’s first selection features stunningly direct testimony about data. This particular Senate committee receives scalding criticism over the way the GDP is used by the government and the media to measure societal well-being, for which purpose he argues the GDP is wholly inadequate, rather than to measure economic activity, which it actually [...]