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Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives

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Experts: Federal data sometimes unusable

Submitted: March 14, 2011 - 8:58am
Last updated: March 14, 2011 - 9:10am
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street 2157 House Rayburn Building, Washington, DC, 20515, United States
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At a March 11 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, the Obama Administration was credited for launching a series of websites making thousands of federal agency data sets publicly available, but the information isn't always usable or accurate.

Expert says data on federal transparency site is wrong

Submitted: March 10, 2011 - 10:36pm
Last updated: March 10, 2011 - 10:50pm
Location:
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street 2157 House Rayburn Building, Washington, DC, 20515, United States
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Sunlight Foundation Executive Director Ellen miller will testify before the House Oversight Committee March 11. She plans to say that the majority of the data on a federal website intended to give the public transparency into the government's spending is wrong.

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Date: Mar 11 2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Independence Avenue and South Capitol Street 2154 House Rayburn Building, Washington, DC, 20515, United States

Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives

Subcommittee on Technology
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Friday, March 11, 2011
10am
2154 Rayburn

Witnesses

Panel I
Dr. Danny Harris
Chief Information Officer
Department of Education

Chris Smith
Chief Information Officer
Department of Agriculture

Ellen Miller
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Sunlight Foundation

Jerry Brito
Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Panel II
The Honorable Danny Werfel
Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management
Office of Management and Budget

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