One thing all cities MUST do, and three questions to ask before signing an agreement with a smart cities vendor.
Continue readingCities should be smart about smart cities agreements
How could open data help Austin, Texas better serve people experiencing homelessness?
The City of Austin has been working to deeply understand the experiences of people in homelessness, and build trusting relationship with a population that's wary of government. Now, Sunlight’s Open Cities team and the City are working together to see if open data could be part of the solution.
Continue readingHow Seattle, WA is balancing openness with privacy in an age of online data threats
How is Seattle meeting its open government commitment while managing privacy risks? Sunlight's Open Cities team talked with David Doyle, the city's open data program manager, to discuss how the city is collecting and protecting sensitive data.
Continue readingCities across the Americas discuss data for social impact at OGP 2017
The Open Government Partnership's 2017 Americas Regional Meeting included a new focus on cities, and it opened conversations about data, experiences, and shared learning across continents. Here's what we heard from three days in Buenos Aires.
Continue readingBringing empathy to data science at the University of Chicago’s Civic ScopeAthon
Open data can be a powerful tool for community advocates working to solve local problems. There are a lot of... View Article
Continue readingHow Houston is using open data to handle Hurricane Harvey
Open data has become a crucial part of emergency response to natural disasters. This week, Hurricane Harvey is demonstrating how robust open data systems can help any city cope with and recover from disaster.
Continue readingHere’s how city officials can make open data more useful
City leaders are brainstorming new strategies to make government data more appealing and useful to their residents. Find out how we're helping cities to be more open with members of their communities seeking public information.
Continue readingHow American cities can help close the national trust deficit
cities are at the center of ongoing, important national discussion about how data can serve the American people, wherever their mayors sit on the political spectrum.
Continue readingRiverside connects communities to sustainable open data
Whether through apps, passing open data policies, or new channels for collaboration on systemic issues like homelessness, Riverside is taking meaningful steps to connect its people to their own data.
Continue readingConnect open data to residents’ lives with our Tactical Data Engagement guide
Announcing "Tactical Data Engagement," a new Sunlight resource to help city open data programs go beyond mere access toward co-creation for community impact.
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