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We won three #AnthemAwards! Silver for Sonia Wang's leadership on climate and environmental data, plus Bronze for our Center for Climate and Environmental Data's partnerships and for our research on federal data infrastructure. buff.ly/ckajvKF

Thank you to everyone who celebrated our entries during #AnthemAwards voting. Congratulations to Sonia Wang and the CCED team, and to our Center for Evidence Capacity, whose Evidence Act Hub and Evi were part of a winning Bronze entry.

📣 The Data Foundation's @DataCoalition community is proud to announce our newest member: @westat!

📊 Westat is a leader in research, data collection and analysis, technical assistance, evaluation, and communications whose evidence-based findings help clients in government and lerate advancements in health, education, and social policy.

🤝 We're looking forward to working with the Westat team as we advocate for better data policies and practices in government!

🔗 To learn more about membership, visit our Data Coalition webpage: buff.ly/8BMbuEk

The FDTA joint data standards took effect on 1 October. Now each US agency has to apply them to its own reporting. 🇺🇸

Tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET, Peter Warms of GLEIF joins @data_foundation on what that next phase needs. #FDTA #LEI

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Americans value federal statistics but trust them less. In a new op-ed for The Fulcrum, the Data Foundation's Nick Hart and Taka Ariga argue policymakers should study that gap and work to close it. 🧵
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Where to start? U.S. participation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) international survey on the drivers of trust in public institutions.
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Dig deeper with the Data Foundation's recent report and fact sheet on Americans' trust in federal statistics: buff.ly/DfpJzfH

It’s not the American people’s obligation to trust government data. Government has to earn that trust--and keep earning it.

A thought for this election weekend, from my new piece with Taka Ariga in @fulcrum_us:
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What's happening with the Evidence Act? Our new brief reviews all 24 CFO Act agencies: none meets all 5 core requirements, and 11 of 72 senior data and evidence posts are vacant. Most gaps can be closed under existing law.

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The Feedback Economy Is Quietly Breaking The Data You Trust hubs.li/Q04CHmm_0 Written by @NickRHart of @data_foundation

We're a finalist in three categories of the 6th Annual #AnthemAwards! Vote by tomorrow (October 29): open each category at buff.ly/U54voSV, scroll to our entry, click "celebrate," then "confirm." It's one vote per category, so please celebrate all three.

Ariga was the first Chief Data Scientist for the U.S. Government Accountability Office and served as both the Chief Data Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He is now the Vice President for Data Policy and Impact at the Data Foundation.

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In an op-ed for Federal News Network, our very own Taka Ariga explains why the Data Foundation launched a community effort to create a national data strategy. buff.ly/Mg3Rptm

The @data_foundation is a finalist in three categories of the 6th Annual #AnthemAwards! Vote by October 29: open each category at datafoundation.org/pages/anthem-a…, scroll to our entry, and click "celebrate." It's one vote per category, so please celebrate all three. Video shows how.

In this month's Data Foundation newsletter, our "Datum in Focus" was 18 million.

In a recent op-ed for @NextgovFCW, Data Foundation President and CEO @NickRHart explained how FRED should be a model for any federal agency that publishes data and wants their open data to be discoverable and used in the AI era.

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