The U.S. government is awash in data that is collected, stored and disseminated by federal agencies to fulfill their public service missions. However, the existence of huge amounts of information within the government presents a major profit-making opportunity for commercial firms. The Obama administration has now launched a program designed to make the data resources of the federal government much more available to the public and to private firms for commercial development.
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White House Pulls Back the Curtains on Big Data Project
Posted by: John K. Higgins May 22, 2013 05:00 AMThe U.S. government is awash in data that is collected, stored and disseminated by federal agencies to fulfill their public service missions. However, the existence of huge amounts of information within the government presents a major profit-making opportunity for commercial firms. The Obama administration has now launched a program designed to make the data resources of the federal government much more available to the public and to private firms for commercial development.