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White House’s DATA Act report: Standardized Data is Needed to Modernize Federal Grant Reporting – But Not Contract Reporting

White House’s DATA Act report: Standardized Data is Needed to Modernize Federal Grant Reporting – But Not Contract Reporting

by | DATA Act, Data Coalition, Grant Reporting, Noteworthy, OMB, Open Data

Last Thursday, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued its long-awaited report on reducing compliance burdens for recipients of federal grants and contracts. Its main recommendation is simple yet powerful: the federal government needs to adopt a standardized data structure for all the information that grantees must submit.

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Mid-year Hot Takes: What the Data Coalition’s Up To

Mid-year Hot Takes: What the Data Coalition’s Up To

by | Announcements, DATA Act, Data Coalition, Events, Financial Data Summit 2017, Financial Transparency Act, Members, Noteworthy, Open Data, OPEN Government Data Act

What a year it’s been so far! The Data Coalition is leading the push for the policy changes that are needed to transform government information into open data. The first half of 2017 has been jam-packed with policy and event milestones. And we’re continuing to grow our community.

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What we learned at the DATA Act Summit – and why it was our last one

What we learned at the DATA Act Summit – and why it was our last one

by | DATA Act, DATA Act Summit, Events, Noteworthy, Open Data

At the Data Coalition’s fourth annual DATA Act Summit, we no longer had to point to the future and predict the ways open spending data would benefit government and society. The future had come and the benefits were all around us – a world of new ways to visualize, analyze, and automate information about how taxpayers’ money is used. But we are never going to do this again. Here is why.

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Mnuchin’s Congressional Recommendations Point to Financial Transparency Act

Mnuchin’s Congressional Recommendations Point to Financial Transparency Act

by | 990 data, Announcements, Congress, Financial Transparency Act, IRS, Noteworthy, Open Data

On Tuesday, June 13th, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testified before the House Appropriations Committee in defense of the Treasury Department’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Budget request (see the request here). Mnuchin’s testimony showed an opening to standardize data fields and formats across the nation’s overlapping financial regulatory regimes – just as the Data Coalition has already been recommending to Congress.

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