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February 03, 2010

Open Government Advocates Urge Changes to Open Government Directive

Washington, D.C. - Today, CREW and six other open government groups sent a letter to Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, outlining recommendations to the administration's Open Government Directive to agencies to post high value data sets to Data.gov.

The group's letter pressed for a narrower definition of what constitutes "high value" data, for data sets to be published in more user-friendly formats, and for the implementation of a public feedback mechanism to identify data sets that are non-functional or that contain glitches. The letter also identified the need to add public representatives to the directive's working committee to help implement these and other recommendations.

Click here to read the group's letter to Mr. Kundra.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit www.citizensforethics.org or contact Garrett Russo at 202.408.5565 or grusso@citizensforethics.org