Planning the Data-Driven City
A city’s data is one of its most valuable assets. Urban data is the bedrock of the performance management programs that allow cities to ensure continuous improvement.
View ArticleA Starter Kit for Data-Smart Cities
This guide highlights resources to help answer questions that a new Chief Data Officer or other government data leader might have about the best way to move toward a data-driven enterprise. This guide...
View ArticleSmart Cities, Smart Region: Stephen Goldsmith's Keynote at the 2017 State of...
In February, Stephen Goldsmith delivered the keynote speech at Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s 2017 State of the Valley conference, an annual town meeting that convenes concerned citizens, thought...
View ArticleCertifying Data-Driven Government
A mayor, whether working in a big city or a small one, sees needs every day that would benefit from the investment of public resources. With such opportunities essentially unlimited but resources...
View ArticleHow Kansas City's Data Inventory Led to Better Open Data
Kansas City, Missouri’s comprehensive data inventory shows the importance of clear internal structures and processes to a successful, sustainable open data program. When Chief Data Officer Eric Roche...
View ArticleUser-Friendliness Defines Chicago’s New Data Portal
Chicago’s data portal, first launched in 2010 and codified by a mayoral Executive Order in 2012, is one of the oldest and most robust data portals in the United States. Yet while its content has grown...
View ArticleTaking Pittsburgh’s Open Data on the Road
Once a month in most of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods, a long-held civic tradition marches on: residents gather in church basements, park shelters, community centers, and a patchwork of other spaces...
View ArticleA Better Way to Release Your City’s Data
Open data has immense potential to catalyze creative problem solving by practitioners and policymakers, but troves of vaguely-labeled spreadsheets will do little to inspire interest or facilitate...
View ArticleFrom Research to Results: The Next Wave of Tools For Planning Resilient Cities
How do leaders create resilient cities— those that are able to adapt to changes and disturbances, whether they be natural disasters, economic downturns, technological advancements, or any other...
View Article6 Traits of Productive Hackathons
When people think of hackathons, they likely imagine a dimly lit room full of young coders armed with energy drinks and high-powered laptops frantically writing lines of code. However, government...
View ArticleSyracuse i-Team: Upgrading Infrastructure on a Limited Budget
What does a city do when faced with deteriorating infrastructure and a limited budget, but strong mayoral and public interest in building a more resilient urban landscape? For Syracuse, NY, the answer...
View ArticleTapping Local Data to Fight Drug Overdoses: Part II, Dispatch Your Own Data
About a year ago, Cincinnati, OH, felt the first major shock in its opioid epidemic. While the surrounding county was already one of Ohio’s hardest hit, Cincinnati’s late-summer 2016 surge was...
View ArticleBecoming a Leading CDO: Maksim Pecherskiy, San Diego
Affectionately nicknamed “America’s Finest City,” San Diego is known most for its miles of beaches and seemingly always-sunny weather. But the coastal city is also a hub of innovation, home to a number...
View ArticleWhat Open Data Says About Post-Harvey Mosquito Threats
Cities in southeastern Texas finally saw dry weather on Wednesday, after days of unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.
View ArticleData-Driven Emergency Response: Learning from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Nothing exposes a city’s limited resources quite like an emergency. The reality is that during many natural disasters, municipalities face more 911 calls than they could possibly field, more ravaged...
View ArticleHow San Francisco is Opening More Data with a Premium on Privacy
The promise of open data is alluring: make civic data widely available and governments and the communities they serve can benefit from transparency, new perspectives and approaches. Cities have...
View ArticleTwo Years of Open Data in Pittsburgh
After he assumed office in early 2014, Pittsburgh mayor William Peduto’s administration began an effort to make the city’s data open and accessible by joining the existing vanguard of cities with open...
View ArticleVideo: Making Government Data Emergency Ready
At the Summit on Data-Smart Government in late 2017, San Diego CDO Maksim Pecherskiy delivered a lighting talk on the value of making government data disaster ready.
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