Policy Advisor, OSTP, Executive Office of the President

1. Open Data
Fueling Innovation
May 18, 2016
Kristen T. Honey, PhD PMP
Policy Advisor
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President

2. Mission
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Responsibly unleash the power
of data for the benefit of the
American public and maximize
the nation’s return on its
investment in data

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OPEN GOVERNMENT
FOR AND WITH
THE PEOPLE

4. Open
Government
Partnership
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5. Open Government
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The United States is a world leader on open government—
promoting increased transparency, greater accountability,
more meaningful citizen engagement and better public
service delivery.
Open Government Initiative – launched in 2009, each agency is directed
to increase transparency, public participation, and collaboration by setting goals and issuing
commitments through Agency Open Government Plans published biennially.
Open Government Partnership – launched in 2011 by President Obama and seven other heads
of state, has become a 69-country platform leading on transparency, civic tech and innovation,
and citizen participation.
 Open Government National Action Plans – published biennially to include
ambitious commitments that countries will achieve to further open
government principles.
 Open Government Summits – held biennially by OGP chair country as large
multi-track conferences; most recent summit in Mexico City in 2015 featured
more than 2,000 participants from 60 countries.

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DATA
BY THE PEOPLE
FOR THE PEOPLE:
OPEN BY DEFAULT

7. Open by Default with Federal agency data machine readable and discoverable
Open Data Policy: Executive Order M-13-13
Managing Information as an Asset
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8. Accelerate responsible data sharing with open by default and new tools/resources
available to agencies
Data.gov
Unlocking Data –
Accelerating Progress of Federal Partners
Maximizing Data
Return on Investment
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9. Open Data-Driven Analytics
Data-Driven Analytics informing 21st Century Government
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https://www.digitalgov.gov/services/dap/
Open application programming interfaces
(APIs): http://api.data.gov/metrics/

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DATA
FUELING
OPEN INNOVATION
https://crowdsourcing-toolkit.sites.usa.gov/

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DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION
IS A TEAM
SPORT

12. BUILDING A MORE AWESOME
GOVERNMENT
BY THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE.
TOGETHER.
TODAY.
Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact
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13. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: International
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A website that tracks and visualizes U.S. Government foreign assistance
investments in an accessible and user-friendly format
ForeignAssistance.gov
Providing open U.S.
foreign assistance data
to the public

14. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Finance
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• Public, transparent implementation of
a watershed open data law
• Early, user-centered beta of the next-
generation USAspending.gov
By incorporating agency
and public feedback early
and often, Treasury’s DATA
Act Program Management
Office will unify financial
and awards data, making it
possible—for the first
time—to track the entire
spending lifecycle of a
federal dollar
Data Resource Template
DATA Act Program Management Office
http://fedspendingtransparency.github.io/ and http://openbeta.usaspending.gov

15. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Agriculture
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
initiative works to support global efforts to make
agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available,
accessible, and usable for application worldwide
GODAN Summit 2016
GODAN partners are focused on identifying
creative, concrete policy and technical deliverables
to be announced at the GODAN Summit
Join GODAN and help us make data work harder
for agriculture and nutrition!
http://www.godan.info/

16. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: College Scorecard
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17. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Health
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HHS Demand-Driven
Open Data (DDOD)
Provides a channel and tools for community engagement,
ongoing dialog and knowledge management to maximize
the value from HHS’s data assets
http://ddod.healthdata.gov/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services IDEA Lab

18. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Health
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
An Open Resource
for Cancer Data
NCI Genomic Data Commons
and Cancer Cloud Pilots provide
access to cancer genomic data
http://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/cloudpilots released January 2016

19. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Precision Medicine
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Health Care Tailored to You
Mission: To enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies
that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward
development of individualized treatments

20. Federal Agencies’ Open Data Impact: Police Data Initiative
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53 jurisdictions around
the country are agreeing
to provide data around:
● Use of force
● Vehicle and
pedestrian stops
● Officer involved
shootings
Restore the public’s trust in government and policing by increasing
access to data around law enforcement activity

21. Join us!
June 4, 2016

22. Join us!
September 28, 2016
Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC
celebrating Federal open data use
Open Datapalooza

23. Thank You
Kristen T. Honey, PhD PMP
Policy Advisor
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President