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Open Data Advocate Wants Comprehensive Policy for California

Robb Korinke, a principal at GrassrootsLab who leads technology-focused government efforts, lays out a three-step plan for enacting a comprehensive open data policy in California.

Separate pieces of legislation circulating at the State Capitol would create a state-level chief data officer and require local agencies to inventory the data they have. One open data advocate thinks California can push the envelope even further.

Robb Korinke, a principal at GrassrootsLab who leads technology-focused government efforts for California Forward, a nonprofit organization that calls itself a “catalyst for change,” lays out a three-step plan for enacting a comprehensive open data policy in California.

Korinke writes in a Sacramento Bee opinion piece that California needs to better understanding of how and what data agencies store, make data work together, and prioritize data by developing standards and practices.

“A comprehensive open data policy would allow the state, its residents, and private and nonprofit sectors to explore issues in an entirely new way, one that emphasizes hard information and eliminates the silos of knowledge that separate state, city, county and other activity,” Korinke writes. Read the full story in the newspaper here.

California Forward is hosting a data summit on March 18 in Sacramento. Scheduled speakers include Jodi Remke, chair, Fair Political Practices Commission; Kish Rajan, director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz); and Abhi Nemani, chief data officer, City of Los Angeles.

This staff report was originally published by TechWire