Data Coalition Co-Hosts Public Forum on Federal Data Strategy
On November 8, the Data Coalition joined the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Office of Management and Budget to host a public forum discussing the Federal Data Strategy. The second in a series on the strategy, this forum allowed the public, businesses and other stakeholders to comment on the recently published draft set of practices.
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Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the CEP's report, “The Promise of Evidence-based Policymaking,” and we took the opportunity to join members of the Commission and other guests at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s event, “Evidence: Time for Act.” 
Modernizing financial regulatory reporting is no easy task. Open data standards are the key: by replacing document-based reports with standardized data, regulators can spur modernization.
Join the Data Coalition, Thomson Reuters, and government guests to explore the modernization of U.S. federal financial regulatory reporting!
We now have a full year’s worth of standardized spending data under the DATA Act of 2014. This has quietly been the largest federal financial data effort since the implementation of the CFO Act of 1990.
On May 24th, our Data Breakfast, presented by CGI Federal, introduced federal financial professionals to the new management tools now available to understand spending through live demonstrations.
Our first-ever Data Demo Day will showcase cutting-edge data solutions for a public-sector audience. Data solutions empower managers, citizens, entrepreneurs, Congress, civil society, and watchdogs. Join us on June 6 in Washington, D.C.!
The inaugural RegTech Data Summit’s thesis was that regulatory rules, technology, and data must be modernized in a coordinated fashion. If all three areas are modernized in tandem, new RegTech solutions will flourish, reducing reporting duplication, minimizing reporting errors, and enabling automation.
Progress in RegTech has been seen in the private sector as access to quality data improve. This progress has not been mirrored in the private sector here in the United States, but the potential to improve government efficiency is not far off. 
The Data Coalition and Grant Thornton hosted a California Data Demo Day, on October 19th in Sacramento. The event brought together state agency officials to explore the benefits of open data. Our panelists shared stories of open data success sourced from their agencies and advocacy – by sharing common themes of external transparency and internal efficiency.