- May 1, 2015
- 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.
New MIT research brings together different data sets evaluating the “attractiveness” of a city, resulting in a ranking tool that provides insight into the relationship between a city’s size and the activities of the tourists who visit it, MIT Technology Review reports.
State and local government leaders gathered in Reno, Nev., for the 2015 Government Social Media Conference & Expo, discussing video techniques and steps governments can take to keep social media initiatives functional and affordable.
Santa Monica, Calif., released its groundbreaking analysis of its residents’ well-being after a two-year effort to create a municipal well-being index, a tool the local government will use to assess its efforts to improve the community’s well-being over time, the Santa Monica Daily Press reports.
Philadelphia launched a best practices website, part of an effort to engage government leaders and policymakers who want to learn from evidence-based programs and maximize public value. The City aims to continually update the site with cutting edge resources.
In a collaborative effort to encourage community-wide information sharing, The Wilkes-Barre and Wilkes-Barre Township police departments enrolled in a new info-sharing app that allows users to receive police alerts and report suspicious activity, the Citizens' Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) reports.
New from our team:
Here on Data-Smart City Solutions, Quinton Mayne examines important questions to guide regulatory policy development in a new white paper published as part of our Regulatory Reform for the 21st Century project.
Also on Data-Smart City Solutions, Tim McNaught takes a look at solutions for amplifying community voices, and Benjamin Shaffer examines strategies for engaging everyone, both part of our series recapping insights from the March 2015 convening of the Project on Municipal Innovation Advisory Group.
