- October 26, 2013
- Civic Data
Each week we will bring you a summary of what happened this week on our site, on Twitter, and in the wider world of municipal data. Suggest stories on Twitter with #ThisWeekInData.
In the wake of the troubled Healthcare.gov rollout, NPR’s Elise Hu interviewed Mike Bracken, the executive director of digital for the UK, about the successes of the UK’s government digitization.
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management created SF72, a “people-centered vision of emergency preparedness.”
John Tolva, the Chief Technology Officer of Chicago, announced that he will be leaving his position after two and a half years.
Brady Dale of Next City interviewed Anthony Townsend, author of the new book Smart Cities, about some of the implications of widespread civic technology.
Susan Crawford, our project advisor, wrote that “The U.S. Needs a Tech-Smart Government” on Bloomberg.com. She argues, “it is no longer acceptable for policy makers and project managers to know so little about technology. Or for technologists to be treated as mere implementers.”
NEW FROM OUR TEAM
In a guest post about how to justify open data, Laurenellen McCann of the Sunlight Foundation rebutted the most common arguments for not releasing data.
Chicago Fellow Sean Thornton detailed the City’s new Data Dictionary, “a massive, public metadata repository—a searchable archive of “data describing data”—that gives users information about the variety of data in the City of Chicago’s numerous databases.”
