California Lawmaker Pushes for State Chief Data Officer

Government Technology: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers and experts spoke to the merits of open data legislation that would create a new state-level chief data officer during an event at the California Capitol Wednesday morning.

California Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, and Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, among others, addressed the need to streamline the state’s open data publishing efforts at the California Data Demo Day. The morning event was hosted by the Data Transparency Coalition, a trade group that advocates for publishing government data in open, machine-readable formats.

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