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Recovery.gov's Data Transparency Called "Significant Failure" by Watchdog Group

Source: readwriteweb

Jun 25, 2009

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The US Office of Management and Budget issued new reporting guidelines this week for recipients of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the normally polite geek watchdog organization the Sunlight Foundation has come out swinging.

"...[A]bsent from the new instruction is a requirement to make raw data public," Sunlight's co-founder and Executive Director Ellen Miller wrote this morning. "By not including raw data at Recovery.gov, transparency is dramatically reduced. Sunlight has argued strongly for raw data in machine readable formats as the starting point for Recovery.gov. This is a significant failure by the Administration to live up to its promise for full and complete disclosure. Significant failure."

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The Recovery.gov site might surprise us and end up offering the data it collects in raw bulk formats, but without making preparation for that a requirement in reporting from recipients it seems unlikely to be done well, if at all.

Why would the Obama Administration not offer raw bulk data as part of its much celebrated tr

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