Houston Mayor’s ‘Open Data’ Policy Aims to Unleash Public Information

Two hackathons and a few dozen app ideas later, the city still requires formal public information requests to release many popular records and has no set processes to decide which data can be freely released or how to keep it up-to-date.

by Mike Morris

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