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A History of ‘Urban Dashboards’ and their Impact on City Governance

The platform is intended to help its audiences — citizens, public employees, and businesses — with their own decision-making and "evidence-informed analysis," and to encourage the independent development of visualizations and applications.

CIO Mark VanOrden Discusses Utah’s New Open Data Portal

Utah is aiming to have all state and local open data online by December 2016

CIOs, Dashboards and the Cobbler’s-Children Syndrome

CIOs need to invest more effort in building dashboards to track critical projects and feedback from key stakeholders.

John Oliver Breaks Down America’s Crumbling Infrastructure

Everyone agrees America’s infrastructure needs attention. But no one seems to be able agree on how to provide that attention.

Chief Data Officer Proposed for California

Typically a chief data officer sets data retention, sharing and publication policies, and engages the civic hacking community and internal staff to use the data to drive innovation.

Want to Avoid Procurement Missteps? Learn from Someone Else’s Mistakes

A new online workshop from the GovLab Academy targets government procurement officials looking for a boost.

"We Can Do Better Than This As A City" — using big data

He shows how a combination of unexpected questions and smart data crunching can produce strangely useful insights, and shares tips on how to release large sets of data so that anyone can use them.

High-Tech Council Creates Data Dashboard to Keep Massachusetts on Right Road

"This is actually going to be very helpful for not only keeping track of what our peer states are doing, but informing our decisions."

The ABCs of Cost Accountability in Government Services

Want to know how to do less with less? Activity-based costing has great promise.

Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) launches new website aimed at better communication

"There are all sorts of projects we want public input so we need to make sure people are informed."

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