We’re taking the last podcast of 2021 to take a look at the leadership roles of the Chief Data Officers and the Federal Chief Data Officers Council, and the work they are doing to help create a data infrastructure, and build a culture of data.

As our regular listeners know, we’ve been hosting a series of events as a part of our RegTech 2021 series, sponsored by Donnelly Financial Solutions. The RegTech 2021 series was capped off with a panel that examined Data Coalition's ESG Working Group’s recommendations on how to improve Environment, Social and Governance data ecosystems among financial institutions and regulators.

The Data Coalition and DFIN hosted a conversation with members of the EDM Council ESG Working Group that focuses on the results of its Corporate Reporting Entity findings in part 3 of the RegTech 2021 Series. The report is one section of a larger body of work that contains the results of a nine-month study to investigate, review, and document ESG data challenges through a collaborative, cross-industry approach with data professionals, corporate sustainability reporting professionals, ESG subject matter experts, and other business leaders.

On September 24, President Biden signed into the Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act (P.L. 117-40), after passing the House and Senate with strong bipartisan support. This episode explores what the new law will mean for government oversight and spending transparency.

On June 30, 2021, The White House Office of Management and Budget issued guidance to federal agencies about implementing key provisions of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. Throughout this episode you will evaluation experts discuss the newly-issued guidance, how it provides the most detailed direction for federal evaluation policy and practice to date, and highlight key aspects of the need for capacity and funding, and how evaluation is relevant to activities.

This episode of Data Share we will hear about the Policing in America Project. The project was created to gather information about perspectives on police activities in the United States and calibrate new insights. Residents in Cook County, Illinois, and Dallas County, Texas were surveyed about public perceptions and experiences with the police. During this episode you will hear from Patrick McGarry from data.world who moderated a discussion with Dr. Lorenzo Boyd with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives and Dr. Peniel Joseph, Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. The Data Foundation would like to thank our partners who made this project possible: data.world, Microsoft, SpotCrime, Forward Cities, and NORC at the University of Chicago .

This is part 2 of the RegTech 2021 discussion. If you haven't listened to part 1 we recommend listening to part 1, episode 2. On this episode you will hear from Mike Willis, Associate Director in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Preethy Prakesh, Vice President of Business development from eBrevia, a DFIN company.

Every year, we host an event that focuses on issues with regulatory technology, RegTech 2021, along with our partner, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN). The episode features a conversation from RegTech 2021, between Dr. Henry Kautz, Division Director, National Science Foundation and Nick Hart, President, Data Foundation.

This episode looks at the role data standards play in financial markets, and why the proposed Financial Transparency Act (H.R. 2989) aims to improve them by preventing fraudulent activities and improving information for investors. During this episode will hear from John Bottega, President of the EDM Council and former Chief Data Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ken Lamar, Principal Partner of Lamar Associates LLC and Independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte and Touche LLP, and Ben Harris, former chief economist to then-Vice President Joe Biden, and current nominee Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department.

We have spent this season examining the challenges in building sustainable data practices and processes and talking over potential solutions and best practices. In this final episode, we will look forward to the future and discuss the congressional action that is required to move the yardstick, and outline what steps an incoming Administration should take to continue the on-going work across government.

As policymakers work to ensure that data is accessible and usable, it is also vital that the public can trust the quality of the data. This episode considers what role data quality and transparency have in boosting public trust, while its accompanying webinar will look at the best practices for businesses and government agencies to build public trust in times of uncertainty.

Congress has a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the government is engaging in sustainable data practices. What have been some recent legislative wins when it comes to data management? How can Congress incorporate data best practices into future legislation? And what is their responsibility to ensure the successful implementation of data laws?

The federal government is a unique enterprise and has unique challenges in building long term, sustainable data practices. How are chief data officers tackling these challenges, and what are lessons learned from other organizations that can help tackle the problems?

The federal government controls vast troves of data but has yet to realize the full potential of these assets in making good policy. What does sustainable data look like, and what has stood in the government’s way of making the most of the data to date? What new and unique challenges are coming into focus? This first episode of DataShare will explore the roadblocks that we’ve overcome and the ones we need to avoid to kick off the series discussion on building a sustainable data system across government.