The Legislative Branch’s Role in Advancing Sustainable Data Practices

Guests:

• Marci Harris, CEO, Co-Founder at PopVox
• Zach Graves, Head of Public Policy and Managing Director of the Washington, D.C. office at Lincoln Network

Hosts:

• Corinna Turbes, Policy Manager, The Data Coalition
• Dean Ritz, Member of the Data Coalition Board of Directors, and Senior Director of Digital Reporting Strategy at Workiva

Resources:

• Report: Leveraging the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Nonpartisan Oversight
• Letter to Congress: Options for Congressional Technology Modernization

Series Sponsors:

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The Data Coalition is America’s premier voice on data policy. As a membership-based trade association, the Data Coalition advocates for responsible policies to make government data high-quality, accessible, and useable. Our work unites the data communities that focus on data science, management, evaluation, statistics, and technology, including individuals in companies, nonprofit organizations, and academia.

In the course of our work, the Data Coalition advocates for appropriate data standards and access mechanisms, promotes the need for sufficient resources for data quality and evaluation activities, educates government leaders and stakeholders about the potential benefits of better data policy, and convenes the data community to support solutions that drive needed transformation in our approaches to using data.

The Data Coalition is registered as a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.