Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information

Posted on May 9, 2013 by admin

US President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order setting forth principles and requirements for making US Government data open and machine-readable, including that “To promote continued job growth, Government efficiency, and the social good that can be gained from opening Government data to the public, the default state of new and modernized Government information resources shall be open and machine readable. Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable”. Read the entire order. 

http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government-