White House announces Open Data policy

FYI - this can obviously support the TGF vision also. David

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The White House today released an Executive Order

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Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information.
In addition there is now a new open source tools project and resources on GitHub in support of this initiative.
The potential here to change how a whole range of services are delivered to citizens is significant and also for new services and commercial opportunities to emerge that utilize these data services.