The Center for Democracy & Technology and OpenTheGovernment.org have launched Show Us The Data: The Most Wanted Government Documents, a project aimed at identifying vital government information and encouraging the federal government to put it within easy reach of the public. From the announcement:
“This project will lead to a report recommending documents and data that the federal government should make easier to find and use. The project’s launch follows up on a directive from President Obama to federal agencies to proactively make information available to the public. The goal is to identify the documents and databases the public most wants to be made publicly available in usable formats. The items can be information known or thought to be in the federal government’s possession, or information that the federal government should be collecting or generating.
“In a world of mash-ups and third party websites creating innovative products drawn from open and accessible information, the federal government must add data that is open and interoperable to that diverse pool of information. With the direct support of the White House, now is the time to figure out what information citizens want to find, access, and use from federal government sources that cannot get to right now.
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information created and/or collected by the federal government that should be accessible to the public at no fee, but currently is not.
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information created and/or collected by the federal government that is accessible to the public but is not available in a no-fee electronic form that is easy to find, search, or use.
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useful public information that is not collected and/or created by the government, but that should be and disseminated in a no-fee electronic form that is easy to find, search, or use.
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information and unclassified documents or data that are produced using taxpayer funds, but are not available to the public.”
For more information on this project, visit www.showusthedata.org.
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