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Using Data-driven Strategies for Reducing Homelessness

Communities across the nation are making the most of limited resources, utilizing data analytics and creating browser-based applications that help connect homeless individuals to needed services.

City’s interactive map allows users to track development

The online community development map shows all of the active planning projects around the City to give people a sense of where development is happening – like the Northwest side of town.

The State of Montana and Bozeman, Montana launch online data portal for public information

Bozeman was brought into the fold after partnering with the state on the Montana Site Selector, a similar project that melds city and state land data.

Access to government data is not a privilege; it is a civil right. – The Quiet Revolution: Open Data Is Transforming Citizen-Government Interaction

Our democracy is not in its most perfect form, and we have a chance to make it better.

Listings app lets local governments trade equipment

MuniRent wants to encourage city councils to take advantage by pooling their resources and lending them to each other.

How Civic Engagement Platforms Can Bring Back the Expertise of Urban Planners

To build better communities, we need to use better tools to make it easy for all residents to add their voice to the process. Civic engagement platforms can help planners reach a wider audience and leverage their expertise to implement change.

Open Data: California’s Water Records Should Be Made Public

As big believers in the benefits of open data, California’s locked-up water records are an exciting prospect

Montana keeping property owners, taxpayers in the dark

Montana Revenue Department Director Mike Kadas – whom Missoulians will remember as a former Missoula mayor – recently urged a legislative committee to get on board with the idea of making real estate sale prices part of the public record; he plans to ask the 2015 Legislature to change the law to allow public disclosure of this information.

Where HHS 2015 IT budget is headed: Data

The sprawling IT budget at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) makes it one of the most heavily funded civilian organizations in the federal government. And almost all of that money is being laser focused on data, and how to use it securely.

How ‘Identity Proofing’ Saved New Jersey Millions

The Department of Labor has taken note of New Jersey’s recent success, and some of its strategies are beginning to attract notice from other states.