A new report from the Government Accountability Office offers a state of play for the Chief Data Officer Council, or CDO Council, and its work in the nearly three years since its establishment.
Congress set up the council as part of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, meant to push government agencies to craft policies with evidence and data. That law also formally established the position of chief data officer and tasked the council with a series of statutory requirements to advance evidence use in federal policy…
Among the actions taken, GAO notes that the council released a data skills training program implementation toolkit in 2021, in response to Office of Management and Budget guidance in 2019 that agencies train staff on data…
The council is also charged with establishing government-wide best practices for data. It issued CDO Playbook, reported on agency data skills training programs, facilitated CDO discussions and made an award program for feds doing innovative data work… Read the full article here.
