Findings from two empirical case studies in New York and St . Petersburg, Russiaproduced an improved general model that addresses three questions: How can a given government's open data program stimulate and support an ecosystem of data producers, innovators, and users?
José M Alonso is the Open Data program manager at the World Wide Web Foundation.
The open data program at the CHHS made it possible to apply aggregated health data to create WICit, a web-based application developed by community members that helps families easily figure out grocery stores where WIC payments are accepted.
Open data programs are helping others states save millions.
Public-private collaboration can help support federal open data programs, but legal, policy, and operational concerns can make it difficult for agencies to work with the private sector.
Included in that is $7 million for expanding the access to information system, $5 million for open data programs, and $9 million to consult and study whether to implement a new electoral system.
The initiative -- which is now accepting applications from cities with populations between 100,000 and 1 million -- will create open data programs that boost government transparency, help cities incorporate data into policy decision-making and fund efforts that best deliver positive results for citizens, among other functions, according to a press release from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Jackson, Mississippi, one of the first eight What Works cities, passed the state's first open data policy, recently launched an open data portal and a performance analytics program, and has saved more than $600,000 by using data to design a better process to reduce the number of blighted buildings.
Under the program, women are given a smartphone equipped with an open data kit and the app "EyeWatch".
