- Research Article
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- 10.1162/99608f92.f9fc894c
A Value-Driven Approach to Building Data Infrastructures: The Example of the MidWest Collaborative
- Jan 27, 2022
- Harvard Data Science Review
- Jessica Cunningham + 3 more +3
Employment Security, explain how a regional collaborative of states in the Midwest have joined forces to share education, training, and workforce data across states lines. Overcoming numerous legal and privacy hurdles, the states have established an on-going governance structure using a secure platform to greatly increase the value of their data to policy makers. In the process, they have built state capacity to continue to support evidence-based policymaking. The multi-state products that have been developed, along with the on-going training in data linkages have served the states particularly well as they have had to respond quickly to the need for accurate and timely data during the COVID pandemic.
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