Abstract
A Value-Driven Approach to Building Data Infrastructures: The Example of the MidWest Collaborative
Highlights
The ‘evidence-based policy movement’ has created a great deal of interest in how to make better use of administrative government data across the world (Elias, 2018; Head, 2016)
In this article we describe a new approach to building data infrastructures driven by state and local needs
It was necessary to establish a technical environment within which confidential data could be hosted and that could meet the legal and privacy requirements to sharing data
Summary
In the case of the United Sates, the passage of Public Law 115-435, known as the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (2018) or the ‘Evidence Act’ led to substantive changes in the ways in which federal data can be accessed and used Many of these data are generated by state and local governments, who can use them to make better investments in education, training, health care, and criminal justice programs. The second example describes a tool that is being used to provide timely local information about job loss and reemployment resulting from the massive labor market shock engendered by COVID-19 Each of these steps provided the rationale and impetus to establish a governance structure that can achieve key goals: facilitate interstate collaboration on data, define a state-led data analytics infrastructure, build production-level technical capacity, address privacy concerns, establish a professional development curriculum, develop processes for the collective use of data for research and evaluation, and inform and shape the national evidence strategy.
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