Government Statistics Under Trump
Scientists and statisticians are worried that the 115th Congress and Trump Administration will harm the collection of statistical data by the government, according to several articles cited in the January 31, 2017 Ocassional Note of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS). Trump shouldn’t close the doors on government data, By Catherine Rampell. […]
Groups Advising President Structured to Avoid Public Disclosure
The White House appears to be deliberately structuring and naming business-focused groups that advise the President to exempt them from federal transparency law that requires meetings of such groups be formally announced in advance and open to the public. A White House official who asked not to be named told Politico that the White House […]
Data Rich Reports
Gary at InfoDocket produced a great list of more than 100 “data rich” reports from all over. Get ’em while you can! Reference: A Roundup of New Research and Data-Rich Reports Available on the Open Web The list includes reports on “newsworthy” topics (Brexit, Muslim Populations world wide, State and Local Sales Tax Rates) as […]
Document of the day: NSA’s guide to the internet
This just came through my twitter feed from @MuckRock. Through a FOIA request which shook it loose from the notoriously difficult NSA, we now have access to NSA’s 2007 Untangling the Web: a guide to Internet research. It kind of reads like a Terry Pratchett novel if Terry was having a psychotic/psychedelic episode. As MuckRock […]
Vigilance and Action in Uncertain Times
January 31, 2017 / Leave a comment
During this past week, there were many reports about the Trump administration’s actions that appear to be either removing information, or blocking information, or filtering scientific information through a political screen before allowing that information to be released. How concerned should government information specialists be about these developments? Very. What can we do? First, let’s […]
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