What Are the Benefits of Cloud Data Storage for Government?
Data pertains to many government operations and decisions. So how do you ensure the data is protected and accessible? Cloud data management is one option.
Open Data
The City of Asheville: Driving Conversations With Dashboards
Cities and states have realized a need to fine-tune the ways they ensure everyday citizens could access data and make sense of it.
The City of Syracuse: Visualizing a Community Using Data
Not only do governments need that kind of expertise, but they need to find a way to publish data without much of a budget — if any.
Getting Outside the Government Insider’s Fight for Data
In the uphill struggle for more data-driven governance, the insider’s best resource might just be experience, expertise and methods that have been developed outside of government.
Data Alone Is Not Enough: 4 Challenges Which Exist for Leveraging Data for Better Policy Making
Four key lessons based on conversations with chief data officers across varying levels of government.
How the Open Data Movement Can Realize Its Potential
Open data will never be as pervasive or transformational without addressing the core obstacles that agencies face in sharing data.
Have You Mastered Open Data?
The current open data movement came about approximately seven years ago. The impetus came from individuals wanting more transparency, accountability and a fuel for apps for the betterment of all mankind. So how are we doing?
A Single Solution to Multiple Challenges
With limited budgets and a dwindling workforce, agencies can’t afford to buy one-off solutions only address single problems. Instead, leaders should recognize that these diverse pressures to reform actually create a single objective to transform operations from the beginning to end of the records management cycle. With that understanding, it’s imperative to seek a single… Read more »
Can we Open Source our Government?
How can you use open source at your agency?
The One Lesson Open Data Taught Us
Listen to the wisdom that open data is imparting.