The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Open Government Plan meets many of the OGD requirements, making a range of significant data and information available in multiple formats. Going beyond the requirements, NSF also creates a number of science-oriented sites and resources using findings from funded studies to promote learning and education in the sciences; these efforts serve a number of key stakeholders interested NSF operations. In addition, NSF created and maintains a website to promote discussion and feedback regarding its Plan, as it considers its plan to be a first important step in a longer process to create a more open and transparent agency.

The plan would be strengthened by inventorying in detail what it considers high value and important underlying data and committing to a schedule make such data available to the public. The plan would also benefit from a more detailed discussion of its flagship initiative and the steps NSF will take to make it sustainable.

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