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Getting to Know More About Ethics.Gov

by Bryant Lau

Source: White House Blog | Author: Matt Compton | Date: March 15, 2012 “Last week, right before we launched Ethics.gov — which brings data from across the federal government to one place where it can all be searched — Chris Vein, the Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer, sat down to talk about how the [...]

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The Three Constituents of Open Data

by Kevin Merritt

There is a global open data movement underway. Cities, counties, states and national governments are sharing their data with citizens. But all we citizens are not alike. One size does not fit all. Socrata has spent the majority of the last three years focused on understanding the consumption side of the data publishing equation. We’re [...]

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The Social Data Effect

by Kevin Merritt

Data is decidedly intended to be either private or public. If your data is private, you want very much to keep it that way and you’ll go to great lengths to ensure the data’s privacy. Just ask the leadership team at Twitter how they feel about their strategic notes being leaked to TechCrunch and laid [...]

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