Open Government Data in Virginia

On Friday, February 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Waldo Jaquith will be speaking on "Open Government Data in Virginia" followed by an introduction to Open Data Day and CodeAcross in Newman Library's Multipurpose Room (1st floor). Waldo Jaquith is the director of the U.S. Open Data Institute, an organization building the capacity of open data and supporting government in that mission. In 2011, in acknowledgement of his open data work, Jaquith was named a "Champion of Change" by the White House and, in 2012, an "OpenGov Champion" by the Sunlight Foundation. He went on to work in open data with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Jaquith, a 2005 Virginia Tech graduate, lives near Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife and son.