Open Data Day is a gathering in cities around the world of people to write applications and publish analyses using open public data. The goal is to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. (Learn more.) There are more than a dozen Open Day Day event happening in the US.
Bills Related to Open Data
We’re spotlighting bills related to open data. Weigh in and POPVOX will deliver your message to Congress, guaranteed.
- HR 148
DISCLOSE Act
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities.
- S 1665
Read the Bills Act
To preserve the constitutional authority of Congress and ensure accountability and transparency in legislation.
- HR 1211
FOIA Act
To amend section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Freedom of Information Act), to provide for greater public access to information.
- HR 2061
DATA Act
(And S 994 in Senate.) To expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to increase accountability and transparency in Federal spending.
- S 549
Public Online Information Act
To establish an advisory committee to issue nonbinding governmentwide guidelines on making public information available on the Internet, to require publicly available Government information held by the executive branch to be made available on the Internet, to express the sense of Congress that publicly available information held by the legislative and judicial branches should be available on the Internet.
- HR 3316
GRANT Act
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide transparency and require certain standards in the award of Federal grants.
Please keep in mind that highlighting a bill doesn’t imply a POPVOX endorsement in any way. Rather, we’re simply trying to offer one more way to stay informed of an overwhelmingly complex legislative system.
