- November 1, 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.
GovTech reported the launch of Kansas City’s KCStat Dashboard, an online performance tracking tool for the city’s work in Public Infrastructure, Economic Development, Public Safety, Healthy Communities, Neighborhood Livability, and Governance.
Harvard’s Berkman Center released a new paper, “Why We Engage: How Theories of Human Behavior Contribute to Our Understanding of Civic Engagement in a Digital Era,” a “literature review...exploring the intersection of theories of human behavior with the motivations for and benefits of engaging in civic life.”
Philadelphia created a new app for firefighters to enable real-time access in firetrucks to data including 3D neighborhood images, building violation histories, and firetruck and fire hydrant locations.
Alex Howard covered the federal government’s National Action plan, which includes releasing additional open data, improving government transparency, and reforming FOIA.
The Open Knowledge Foundation published the 2013 Open Data Index, which ranks the United States second out of 70 countries on the state of its open data.
McKinsey published “Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information,” a report about the potential $3 trillion economic value of open data.
NYU’s GovLab created the GovLab Academy, a Knight-funded online community discussing and learning about innovation in government.
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Stephen Goldsmith wrote about the additional public value that governments can create by adding visualization to open data.
We posted a recording of a webinar by the Project on Municipal Innovation that brought together representatives from over 20 cities to explore approaches to increasing civic engagement through apps and other tech solutions.
