The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s Daniel Castro calls for the creation of a Department of Commerce Office of Data Innovation in this feature for Smart Data Collective. Despite the extensive economic value of data, “there is still no federal government agency responsible for developing and implementing a national strategy to promote data-driven innovation across all sectors of the economy,” he writes, noting the office “would set priorities for technological research on relevant topics such as data analytics and data storage, as well as privacy and security technologies … it could recommend that the National Science Foundation prioritize research funding in areas such as data de-identification, privacy-preserving data mining, secure, multi-party authentication and interoperable digital credentials.”
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