Robin Carnahan and Waldo Jaquith want states to stop "reinventing the wheel" with each new technology procurement and instead work together to create software they can share.

Waldo Jaquith, speaking at the National Association of State Technology Directors’ annual conference, believes governments need to pair their purchasing of connected devices with their data governance practices.

The State Corporation Commission plans to stop charging for a pair of sought-after databases, after hearing from one determined open data advocate.

In Georgia, officials say government transparency activist Carl Malamud violated copyright laws after he published the state’s legal code to his nonprofit’s website.