Appointed by Secretary Pritzker, the 19-member council provides guidance on areas such as:

• data management practices;
• common, open data standards;
• policy issues related to privacy, latency, and consistency;
• effective models for public-private partnership;
• external uses of Commerce data; and
• methods to build new feedback loops between the Department and data users.

The council is comprised of leading technologists and data leaders who work for some of the most innovative public and private sector organizations, including; Intel, Google, IBM, LinkedIn, PayPal, Amazon Web Services, City of San Fracisco, Indiana University, and more.