Sunlight Open Cities is excited to congratulate Austin, Texas and Norfolk, Virginia as the next pilot projects of Tactical Data Engagement. Austin and Norfolk are both passionate about open data and ready to convene community partners to learn how to support open data use outside of city hall. We’re looking forward to working with both of them to put open data to use addressing community needs.
Continue readingJoin us for “Community impact with open data: Two models from Canada and the United States”
For city data to have the biggest impact, it needs to be open and it needs to involve residents. For many city staff, this can be unfamiliar, unclear, or even intimidating. How can city staff recognize these fears, understand the powerful potential of public collaboration, and cultivate that power to create a robust and enduring open data program? Join us for a webinar conversation with Canadian nonprofit OpenNorth about two models for what engaged, collaborative data publication and use looks like.
Continue readingHow Glendale, Arizona is using Tactical Data Engagement to improve procurement
We collaborated with the City of Glendale, Arizona on our first Tactical Data Engagement pilot project. Building on the success of this first project, Glendale also wanted to use data and evidence to improve the way it manages city contracts.
Continue readingA first look at our Tactical Data Engagement pilot projects
Over the last year, Sunlight’s Open Cities team has been researching and piloting best practices in facilitating community use of open data to continuously develop our TDE framework. Today we’re excited to share an in-depth look at our first TDE pilot project in Glendale, Arizona.
Continue readingLooking for open data use cases in Madison, Wisconsin
Sunlight’s Open Cities team will be in Madison, Wisconsin for two weeks, conducting dozens of interviews as part of our first-ever pilot project for our Tactical Data Engagement work. To that end, if you live or work in Madison and have ideas about these issues, please tell us! Email opencities@sunlightfoundation.com and share your perspectives about how the city could improve how it collects, releases, uses or applies government data.
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 readingWhat city planning taught me about open data
Every day I work with cities to make government data more open and available to the public. I am not a data scientist or analyst, though – I'm a city planner. This is how my background in making cities better has helped my thinking about participatory urbanism and approach to opening data.
Continue readingIntroducing “A Guide to Tactical Data Engagement”
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