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Open Data Archives


  • New York, Open Data

    New York City Council Launches New Public Dashboard

    In the past year, U.S. citizenship assistance was the second most popular category of constituent casework for New York City Council Members after tax preparation help. It is the top issue for Council districts in Northern Queens, Central and Southern Brooklyn, the Western Bronx and Southeast Queens. While Spanish is...

    By: Miranda Neubauer Jun 21, 2018
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  • Open Data

    [Op-ed] The Open Revolution and the Fight against Tech Monopolies

    Editor’s note: Rufus Pollock’s new book The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, explores how our “Closed” approach to information is handing control of our digital economy to a few tech monopolists like Google and Facebook – and what we can do about it. We’re pleased to publish...

    By: Rufus Pollock Jun 20, 2018
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  • GovTech, Open Data, Smart Cities

    Why We Should Treat Public Data Like Water

    The revolutionary potential of the internet means that we can do more than simply build a more beautiful user interface for antiquated government operations.

    By: Patrick Atwater Nov 20, 2017
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  • Analytics, New York, Open Data

    How the NYC Commission on Human Rights Uses Open Data Against Discriminatory Landlords

    The New York City Commission on Human Rights has partnered with the city’s data analytics office for help using open data to go after bad landlords. One of the lesser-known protections of the New York City Human Rights Law prohibits housing providers from discriminating against potential tenants based on their...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Jul 13, 2017
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  • Civic Tech, Open Data, Transparency

    Loveland’s Labor’s Lost: Detroit’s Dubious Civic Tech Champions

    Like other for-profit civic technology companies, Loveland sits at an uncomfortable intersection of priorities. Since its inception, Loveland has struggled to reconcile what its founders think the city needs with what community organizers and residents want and need and what nonprofits, government agencies, and companies are willing to buy.

    By: Jessica McKenzie Mar 15, 2017
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  • Digital Divide, Open Data

    Detroit’s Foreclosure Crisis and the Need for ‘Information Justice’

    Nfr Esters knew she couldn’t save the family house through conventional means. She had inherited the duplex on the East Side of Detroit from her great-grandfather in 2010, but a pipe burst before she moved back to the city, flooding the basement and racking up a $4,000 water bill that...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Mar 9, 2017
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  • Open Data, Open Government, Transparency

    Debating Cass Sunstein on Transparency

    We need to find a language that allows us to differentiate honest, disinterested debate over policy options from special-interest lobbying and campaign-finance blackmail.

    By: Tom Steinberg Sep 20, 2016
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  • GovTech, Open Data, Open Government

    The Next Open Data Movement

    A version of this essay was originally published on the SeeClickFix channel on Medium. Picture a classroom where the teacher presents their information, but the students are not invited to ask questions or present their opinion. Attendance is not mandatory. Now picture the classroom in its fourth week. There’s a...

    By: Ben Berkowitz May 3, 2016
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  • Open Data, Open Government

    Over-Politeness Is the Fatal Flaw in the Open Data Movement

    I am, for my sins, one of the many parents of the strange beast that is the open data movement. I was one of the first people to nag politicians about the value of opening up public data in machine readable ways. I’m one of the first people who actually...

    By: Tom Steinberg Apr 25, 2016
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  • Open Data

    In Texas, a Model For Sharing Open Water Data

    When drought-prone Texas goes dry, the whole world feels it. That, at least, is one takeaway from a New York Times article describing the economic impact of the worst drought in the state’s history on the world cotton market. In total, the 2011 drought cost local agriculture, the cattle industry,...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Apr 13, 2016
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