Government Technology

"There is no wrong door to access government data."

Crowds aren’t just smarter but they can be more efficient, too, saving departments of revenue millions of dollars during peak processing seasons.

"Our goal is not just to make a pretty site, but that the content that we present is of value," Rao said. "We want the information to complement the design."

Want to know how your city’s spending on schools, police, and public works compares to others? The Lincoln Institute has created a new interactive database that for the first time allows apples-to-apples comparisons of city finances.

It is clear there is a burgeoning trend of governments, mostly municipal, that are formally harnessing innovative tech entrepreneurs and their resources to improve government operations and services.

In order for all citizens to truly benefit from open data, every city, county, and state needs to make their data more accessible. We’ve seen what happens when they do.

The explosion of big data provides a vast new resource that can transform organizations, helping them build smarter systems that drive economic growth, sustainable development and societal progress.

In this time and in this place, analytics may be mankind’s last hope.

To properly predict what road maintenance lies ahead, the department will soon work with a contractor to "drive the city" using a truck with specialized equipment that will gather data on current pavement conditions. Once the data is collected, it will be integrated into the asset management system tool for analysis.

Major projects in state government can easily snowball in scope, schedule and budget.