The federal government should make its data available to the public so citizens can use the data to address their own needs and concerns, said panelists at a recent ACT-IAC event.
In a panel discussion last Thursday, Stephen Buckner, the director for new media and promotions at the Census Bureau, said that most data collected by federal agencies is public data and should be owned by the public once any personal information is removed and privacy is secured.
Buckner said that data should be published in APIs and turned over because "it's not what we can do with the information, it's what the public can do with the information. There is no way the government can develop every single web application or every single format of the data that the public wants or needs."
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