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🔍 New Report Alert: The Data Foundation's July "Evidence Capacity Pulse Report" is now live, tracking critical shifts in America's federal data and evaluation infrastructure. Key developments this month: --Agencies advance #opendata plans - Federal agencies are releasing plans required by the OPEN Government Data Act, with public data access continuing to expand via Data.gov --Key statistical leadership roles filled - New appointments announced for Chief Statistician of the United States and Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics --Administration communicates #AI strategies - White House published new AI Action Plan (which we endorsed) reinforcing Chief AI Officers' role in data governance and statistical activities --New SNAP database proposed - USDA seeks input on National #SNAP Information Database, with states and organizations calling for stronger #privacy protections This marks our fifth monthly report documenting how organizational changes across federal agencies impact America's evidence ecosystem and government transparency. Proud of our team's continued commitment to objective, non-partisan analysis during this dynamic period. Special thanks to Sara Stefanik & Nathan Varnell for their work compiling the insights! 🔗 Full report -- > https://lnkd.in/eauNPyTZ #DataGovernance #FederalData #EvidenceBased #Transparency

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Why a fun and useful paper that summarizes some basic data deletion and generalization ideas. Too many organizations are retaining too much data. We always knew that laws alone were insufficient for protecting privacy. Thanks to Eric Giannella, Ph.D. and Amy O'Hara .

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Grok: Based on extensive searches across podcast directories, web archives, and historical references, UAP Studies Podcast appears to be among the earliest—if not the very first—to incorporate "UAP" directly in its title. Its creation date is listed as March 30, 2020, in platform metadata

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It's all about #artificialintelligence in today's Devex Newswire -- as my colleague Catherine Cheney talks to the #UN's tech envoy about the fractured conversations we're having about #AI, and whether we can somehow get on the same page. Plus, Sara Jerving talks to the head of the World Health Organization's #Africa office on how the continent can overcome #foreignaid cuts. https://lnkd.in/eKRJcBMR

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Final AARC-TREE meeting🌳🌳🌳 With the AARC Blueprint Architecture (BPA) 2025 and the Policy Development Kit (PDK) v2, the AARC Community and the project delivers a solid, practical foundation for AAIs supporting research infrastructures. In plain terms: The BPA explains how an AAI should be built — the technical building blocks and how they fit together. The PDK explains how trust is organised — the policies, roles, and agreements that let organisations collaborate safely. Together, they help research infrastructures move from concepts to operations: clearer architecture, shared policy language, and more interoperable and trustworthy access across borders, with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation is a key and very concrete use case. 🚀 #AARC #EOSC #AAI

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Strategy comes down to anthropology and understanding and/or anticipating regulatory or tech changes, because change in social norms, change in regulations and change in what is possible to build are the things that primary drive success forward.

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