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Solving Urban Challenges With Open Data

The open data movement has made a strong case for cities to make their municipal data freely available to the public. Cities that do so get to tap into communities of civic-minded developers that can create useful applications to help citizens learn more about their community – and help make certain government-citizen interactions more efficient. In addition, the transparency and accountability that open data fosters can help build trust between residents and public officials, encourage more citizen engagement, and ultimately lead to more responsive and citizen-focused government.

Obviously, these are all good things. Yet, there arguably exists much larger potential for leverage municipal data to help people get a better understanding about how cities function and behave in order to address many of the complex issues that urban areas are facing.

Christian Madera

Full Story: http://americancity.org/columns/entry/2306/

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