The Maryland Council on Open Data
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The Maryland Council on Open Data recommends, coordinates, identifies, advises, encourages, plans, promotes, and advocates for Maryland's open data.
Maryland's Open Data program provides transparency so that businesses, residents, visitors, and civil servants can use state data to aid in decision-making. Moreover, the transparency of state data helps improve accountability, as data owners share the responsibility for ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date, and available to the public. Open data also has the potential to help improve performance by enabling greater analysis of data and providing more opportunities for collaboration.
The Maryland Council on Open Data has 37 members, including Cabinet agencies, five county representatives, and five private citizens. The Council Chair is the Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, with the Director of the Governor's Office of Performance Improvement serving as the Vice-Chair. The Council meets quarterly, and all meetings are open to the public.