Obama issues Executive Order in support of open data
creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38269
What Jamie wrote
I would love to see this data brought into a wide range of projects, many of them powered by Semantic MediaWiki!
Yesterday President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order requiring federal government information to be open and machine-readable by default. This Order is the latest in a series of actions going back to 2009 in support of increasing access to and transparency of government information.