This is a slide for the Open Gov Data USA update at the OKFestival in Berlin 2014.

1. Open Government Data updates USA
Federal!
• Policy Memo on access to scientific research & data
• White House open data policy
• Executive Order: Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default
• Project Open Data: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io
• Best practices for “license free” data - http://theunitedstates.io/licensing/
• U.S. Open Data Action Plans - White House support for open licensing and CC0
• Agencies now using CC0 - e.g. https://open.fda.gov/
• data.gov: 104,000+ datasets
• NIH imposes new requirements on data sharing
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State!
• New Hampshire, Utah, New York, Hawaii, Washington
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City!
• DC, Portland, Memphis, Lexington, Louisville, Raleigh, Austin, NYC, Providence,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Madison, SF, Tulsa, Oakland, South Bend, West Sacramento
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Take Aways!
• common features
• how many are requiring rights information to communicate legal reuse?
• ongoing debate: open data or open government?
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