Evidence Act at 2: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for 2021

Recording

Overview

Two years ago the monumental Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act was signed into law. The Evidence Act established a new legal framework in the U.S. federal government for open data, data sharing, data governance, evaluation, and privacy protections. Since the law’s enactment in 2019, much progress has been achieved across federal agencies in achieving the law’s intent and purpose: to promote more evidence-based policy across our government. The Data Foundation hosted a webinar on the law’s two-year anniversary, January 14, 2021. The conversation covered the real challenges the evidence community faces in implementing this important law and the opportunities for the year ahead. 

Speakers

• Katharine Abraham, Former Chair, U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking and Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland
• Ron Haskins, Former Co-Chair, U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking and Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution
• Nick Hart, President of the Data Foundation (moderator)