State and USAID embrace data visualization to promote missions

One of US President Obama’s platforms during the election battle was to add several degrees of transparency to government, embracing open standards and visualization.  Last week at the Tech@State event there was lots of discussion on the topic, and an article on NextGov recaps their progress and some of the attempts underway.

Several projects have recently been launched, including a map of sexual orientation and gender identity issues in South and Central Asia and another map charting specific incidents of anti-Semitism in Europe by country. Since the site is part of the Open Government Initiative, all data is in the public domain and made embeddable for easier sharing.

via State and USAID embrace data visualization to promote missions – Nextgov.

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