Identifying and Reducing Health Inequities in Crisis: Covid Response in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Reimagining Vital Records A Digital, Interoperable, & Timely Public Health Data Infrastructure
The report discusses the need for modernization of the vital records system in the United States, highlights key considerations for a future system, and provides recommendations for creating a national vital records data platform.
Using Community- Led Research In The Fight Against Infectious Diseases: Eliminating Tuberculosis For Tibetan Communities
This report discusses the use of community-led research in the fight against infectious diseases, specifically focusing on the efforts to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in Tibetan communities. The report also highlights the significance of data in informing public health interventions and the need for community-led approaches in disease surveillance.
A Vital Source: How Birth and Death Data Inform Decision Making to Support Public Health Outcomes
Vital records, like birth and death certificates, provide official documentation of identity, relationships, and ownership rights, and enable insights into birth and mortality trends. In this use case, you will find three examples of how vital records data have been used to inform decision-making and impact public health outcomes at the county, state, and national levels.
Implementing the Vision of the Evidence Act: A Risk-Based Approach to Data Sharing Using the Five Safes Model
The Evidence Act introduced new authorities for secure data access and sharing, but a conceptual privacy framework is needed to address modern data ecosystem and evolving privacy challenges. The Five Safes model offers calibrated controls across people, projects, settings, data, and outputs to expand access for social benefits through transparent decisions.
Enabling Mission Success: A 2023 Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers
The Data Foundation, in partnership with Deloitte, conducted the fourth annual Federal Chief Data Officers Survey in the fall of 2023. This survey provides inside perspectives on the evolving role of the Chief Data Officer since the Evidence Act, including factors enabling and hindering CDO missions.
Implementing the FDTA: From Data Sharing to Meaning Sharing
This paper proposes frameworks to explain how the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) standardizes data. To create a modern standard, machine-readable semantic data is needed to express both data and authoritative definitions.
Government’s Experience with its Customers to Build Trust: CX/GX Success Stories and Pathways for a More Responsive Public Sector
Government’s Experience with its Customers to Build Trust: CX/GX Success Stories and Pathways for a More Responsive Public Sector report highlights success stories of government customer experience efforts, the role of data in the success, and strategies for improving the efforts moving forward.
Eager for AI: Data Needs to Ensure Artificial Intelligence Readiness in the Federal Government
This brief is intended to serve as a reference document for those interested in promoting AI in the U.S. federal government and was developed in collaboration with the Data Coalition’s AI Task Force. This document consolidates existing strategies that federal agencies are employing that center around strong data management, governance, and capacity.
Assessing Capacity for Using Data to Build Actionable Evidence: A Compendium of the 2022 Research Symposium
This compendium offers an overview of the 16 presentations and key takeaways from the Data Foundation’s 2022 Virtual Symposium, which convened experts who described real-world experiences and research projects that focused on efforts to build federal agency evidence-building capacity.
The Growth and Challenges of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Role and Agencies’ Data Maturity: A 2022 Survey of Federal CDOs
Understanding Policing in America
How Neighborhood and Individual Characteristics Influence Experiences with Police and Perspectives of Policing
Financial Data Transparency: 2022 Forum Compendium
The Data Foundation’s 2022 Financial Data Transparency Forum provided an opportunity for stakeholders representing financial institutions, the data community, and academia to offer actionable and practical feedback on how to improve data management strategies across federal financial regulatory and oversight agencies.
Federal Evaluation Officials: 2021 Survey Results on Agencies’ Emerging Evaluation Capacity to Implement the Evidence Act
CDO Insights: 2021 Survey Results On the Maturation of Data Governance in U.S. Federal Agencies
The Data Foundation, in partnership with Grant Thornton Public Sector, conducted its second survey of federal CDOs in 2021 to assess the progress of CDOs in fulfilling their responsibilities and supporting their agency missions.
Evaluating Evidence-Building Plans: A Review of Five Federal Learning Agendas
This issue brief outlines the theory of change for developing and using a learning agenda, providing practitioners and government officials a useful frame- work for understanding the value proposition for agency evidence-building activities.
Perceptions of Police Activities: Results from the Policing in America Survey by Race and Ethnicity in Cook County, Illinois and Dallas County, Texas
Structuring the Chief Data Office for Success: Identifying Appropriate Organizational Placement and Structures for a Federal CDO
Modernizing U.S. Data Infrastructure: Design Considerations for Implementing a National Secure Data Service to Improve Statistics and Evidence Building
Understanding Machine-Readability in Modern Data Policy
The paper provides an overview of why machine‐readability matters and asserts that public policy for disclosure modernization should specifically require that both the values that entities report and the compliance standards for reporting those values be structured as machine‐readable data.
Funding the Evidence Act: Options for Allocating Resources to Meet Emerging Data and Evidence Needs in the Federal Government
Bringing Blockchain Into Government: A Path Forward for Creating Effective Federal Blockchain Initiatives
Transforming Federal Grant Reporting: Open the Data, Reduce the Costs, and Deliver Transparency
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Open Data for Financial Reporting: Costs, Benefits, and Future
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Who is Who and What is What? The Need for Universal Identification in the United States
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Managing Grants in a Time of Transformation: Purpose-Built Solutions, or CRM?
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DATA Act 2022: Changing Technology, Changing Culture
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Standard Business Reporting: Open Data to Cut Compliance Costs
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The State of the Union of Open Data 2016
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The Data Act: Vision and Value
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