Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order

In an overdue but welcome move, President Obama today issued an executive order mandating "open and machine-readable data" for government-published information. Also, kodiaktau writes "In a move to make data more readily available, the United States of America has announced the Project Open Data and has chosen GitHub to host the content." Ars has a great article on the announced policy, but as you might expect, it comes with caveats, exceptions, sub-goals and committees; don't expect too much change per day, or assume you have a right to open data, exactly, in the eyes of the government, but — "subject to appropriations" — it sounds good on paper. (I'd like the next step to be requiring that all file formats used by the government be open source.)

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Re: How about information on Benghazi, then?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope. Obama belonged to the democratic socialist party of north america. He has always been far left. Its just the media portray him as centerist. Nb: i'm from outside the US.