News release: “..Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Julius Genachowski and Managing Director Steven VanRoekel announced a suite of new tools designed to unlock FCC data and drive innovation across the public and private sectors…The suite of tools released by the FCC includes a number of APIs (Application Programming Interface) – interfaces that enable communication between independent databases – for use by developers across a broad range of industries, including federal, state, and local government. The FCC also announced the creation of a developer community designed to help drive future releases through feedback and collaboration…The datasets and tools released by the agency include the results of the FCC Consumer Broadband Speed Test, which has tallied more than 1 million tests taken since the release of the tool in March. The FCC developed and released an API that unlocks the results of those tests and enables citizen developers to repurpose the data in innovative ways. The agency also released a tool that can match geographic location with government data aggregated at the census block level, the first tool of its kind developed by a federal agency.”