[ESIP-all] FW: President's open gov directive, new "high-value" data sets mandate

[Carol Meyer]

All,

Please see the message below forwarded from the US GEO team via EPA.  As
part of the upcoming Winter ESIP Federation meeting, we are teaming with
USGEO to conduct usability testing of the 3 candidate portals under
consideration for this global effort.  Perhaps, more important than testing
the portals is the need to register your catalogs, components and standards
with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI).  You can register at
http://earthobservations.org/ and scroll to the bottom of the page to access
different parts of the GCI.  Or, come learn more at the ESIP Federation
meeting before taking this next step.  I hope you will find a way to support
this central effort.

Regards,
Carol.

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From: Young.Steve at epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Young.Steve at epamail.epa.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:16 PM
To: Carol B. Meyer
Subject: Fw: President's open gov directive, new "high-value" data sets
mandate


FYI and please feel free to share with ESIP all.
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OMB directs today: "Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and
publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets
(see attachment section 3.a.i) and register those data sets via
Data.gov. These must be data sets not previously available online or in
a downloadable format."

Opportunity for USGEO/GEOSS?

Major White House event just took place this morning at 11.

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At 11:00am ET, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and U.S.
Chief
Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra will launch the administration's
comprehensive Open Government Plan, furthering the President's
commitment
to increasing transparency and accountability in Washington and ensuring
greater access and information for the American people. This
announcement
will be streamed live on whitehouse.gov, and will be followed by a web
forum where individuals will be given an opportunity to ask questions
and
offer suggestions about the administration's Open Government Plan.

We encourage you to watch live and participate in the announcement at
11am
today:http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

Share in this monumental and historic announcement.

WHO: U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra and U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra

WHAT: Administration Launches Comprehensive Open Government Plan

WHERE:Watch it live and participate at  http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

WHEN: Tuesday, December 8 , 11:00 ET
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Sorry to be tardy getting word out.

See brand new Open Government Directive at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ogi-directive.pdf

Excerpt:

"Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and publish online in an
open format at least three high-value data sets (see attachment section
3.a.i) and register those data sets via Data.gov. These must be data
sets not previously available online or in a downloadable format. "

Cheers,

Steve Young
EPA
Co-Chair, ADM


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Hi - would appreciate you guys sending to your networks.



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