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The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation on Thursday published a new tracker that catalogs the growing number of chief data officers working inside of state governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new tracker<\/a> includes details on the 32 state chief data officers, or equivalent roles, including their names, year the role was established and links to enabling legislation and open data portals. Organizers at the Beeck Center, which is housed at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., said the list will receive updates as officials change roles and new legislation is passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State chief data officers have received heightened attention<\/a> since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 pushed more governors to take a closer look at the datasets of their health, workforce and education departments. The latest wave of artificial intelligence technologies has further solidified data\u2019s role in government as states seek to plow data-hungry AIs into everything from their websites<\/a> to 911 call centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ali Benson, director of the Beeck Center\u2019s Data Labs initiative, told StateScoop that many state government officials said they wanted a central repository of information about chief data officers to better understand how the states vary in their approaches to the giant task of organizing and using data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe CDO role has been around since [2010], but even now it\u2019s still kind of hard to define, and every state is a little bit different,\u201d Benson said. \u201cIn addition to that, [many] of the roles had started out with this emphasis on advancing open data initiatives in states, and more and more we\u2019re starting to see that CDOs are evolving into a more complex role that has a closer relationship with the governor\u2019s office, and they\u2019re being more positioned as strategic thought partners in data-informed policymaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said the new tool is intended to have several functions, including providing chief data officers a way to compare their roles to that of their peers, and a means to advocate for increased funding or influence inside their own states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgency leaders can benefit very greatly from a statewide CDO perspective in their work, but a lot of them don\u2019t know that their state has a CDO, so it\u2019s about building visibility for the role,\u201d Benson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beeck Center\u2019s Data Labs initiative, which provides training and technical assistance to data teams inside state governments, has aided a wide range<\/a> of data-fueled projects, like Arizona\u2019s efforts to boost homeless residents\u2019 adoption of safety net benefits and Colorado\u2019s evaluation of how long-haul COVID is affecting the state\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just seen a ton of positive results in terms of CDOs providing that strategic lens in helping states not only have this pragmatic layer of considerations, which is what\u2019s possible from a data perspective, kind of zooming out at a statewide level, what has or hasn\u2019t worked historically, connections with people, etc.\u201d Benson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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