The Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act will...

The Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act will create “a valuable new public resource that strengthens democratic accountability and spurs innovation,” said Hudson Hollister, executive director of the Data Transparency Coalition (DTC), which advocates for the creation of uniform government data standards (http://prn.to/1n9i8BN). DTC’s members include companies such as Teradata and PwC, and individuals from Accenture and Microsoft. The DATA Act (S.994), which would require all federal spending to be disclosed in a standard open data format, will now go to the House for approval, where DTC expects it to pass, DTC said.