How not to drown in your agency's data
A new case study details the Education Department's efforts to get ahead of data disclosure challenges.
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What: "The Data Disclosure Decision," an open data case study from the Federal CIO Council's Innovation Committee.
Why: As government seeks to share more and more of the data it compiles, privacy protection and other concerns must be addressed in a proactive and well-structured manner. To help agencies chart a way forward, the Innovation Committee looked at how the Education Department, which for years has aggregated highly detailed data from states, school districts and individual schools, has structured its Disclosure Review Board.
The report details the challenges posed by the decentralized education data, the processes the department put in place, and the benefits that have been realized as a result.
Verbatim: The Education Department "created a Data Strategy Team to provide a forum to coordinate issues relating to data collection, data stewardship, and data governance. Disclosure Avoidance became a priority and a department-wide Data Release Working Group (DRWG) was formed."
Read the full report here.