DATA Act kick-off meeting
The Treasury Department officially is kicking off the implementation of the DATA Act on Sept. 26. This post is part of Jason Miller's Inside the Reporter's Notebook...
T his just in Friday — the Treasury Department officially is kicking off the implementation of the DATA Act on Sept. 26.
In a notice in the Federal Register, Treasury will host an all- day town hall at its Washington headquarters.
The goal of the town hall is two-fold. First, it’s to educate federal employees on how to implement the act. Second is to hear from members of the public about why government transparency is important.
The meeting also will feature presentations “from experts that have implemented data exchange standards (e.g., Extensible Markup Language (XML), Xtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)) to increase transparency and reduce reporting burden.”
The first public meeting comes almost four months after President Barack Obama signed the measure into law.
OMB hasn’t been ignoring the law that it half-heartedly supported. It sent out a CFO Management Alert in June reminding agencies that that DATA Act is law and is updating Circular A-11.
This post is part of Jason Miller’s Inside the Reporter’s Notebook feature. Read more from this edition of Jason’s Notebook.
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