Our new guide builds on a strong foundation of ideas as well as feedback from city staff and community partners across the country. That community and their feedback helped shape this new edition.
Continue readingJoin us for the official launch of “Tactical Data Engagement”
Governments can go beyond making public data accessible, and proactively work with residents to put open data to into use. Our new Tactical Data Engagement guide will show cities how to do it.
Continue readingWord gets around: Chattanooga adopts Facebook chatbot for open data
Inspired by Kansas City’s experiment with a Facebook "chatbot" for open data, Chattanooga has now made their own. This is a great example of how open cities can learn from one another, adopting and adapting innovative tools for their own communities.
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 readingIn Kansas City, residents have a new friend on Facebook: an open data chatbot
Just because data is open doesn’t mean it’s easy to use. Kansas City wants to see if its Facebook chatbot can change that.
Continue readingCities need your help making better open data policy
Our What Works cities are asking the public to weigh in on draft open data policies. Help us make better policy with, not for, the public.
Continue readingToward more open, data-driven cities
Sharing our progress on the What Works Cities initiative, two years in.
Continue readingHow small cities can do big things with open data
I recently wrote about the Hometown Summit, an event bringing together leaders in government, academia, private and nonprofit organizations from... View Article
Continue readingHow Smaller Cities Can Participate in the Open Data Movement
Last week, I had the opportunity to showcase Sunlight’s latest research on community engagement around open data at the Hometown... View Article
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.
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