A bill unveiled April 14 would codify and extend President Barack Obama’s push for open government data.
The Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act would push agencies to abandon proprietary data formats and justify a failure to publish data publicly rather than the other way around.
“This is the public’s data,” Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) said at an event sponsored by the Data Coalition and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Center for Data Innovation.
