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Palo Alto, Calif., to Launch Open Data Initiative
Less than a year after Palo Alto, Calif., CIO Jonathan Reichental was appointed to office, the city is set to launch an open data platform next month.
On Aug. 1, http://www.data.cityofpaloalto.org will go live in an effort to make city data sets more accessible to the public. Reichental, who took his position as CIO last December, said the city will deploy the initiative as an effort to play catch-up but also fulfill more big picture plans.
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“I don’t think cities should be in the data center business,” he said, later adding, “I think governments get bogged down in procuring big systems, deploying a data center and hiring staff to support them.”
By Sarah Rich
Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/policy-management/Palo-Alto-Calif-Open-Data-Initiative.html
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