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Recommendation to approve the City’s Open Data Policy and related standards to implement modern Citywide practices for sharing data with the public, staff and policy makers. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
National, state and local governments are making data more easily available to their communities and stakeholders to enhance transparency and improve cross- departmental efficiency. This effort is commonly termed “Open Data.” Data is varied and can include wide ranges of information, from City revenues to health statistics to public safety response times. This openness has enabled citizens to gain greater understanding about the workings of government agencies. The data is freely accessible and can be viewed online and downloaded in a variety of formats.
At the request of Mayor Robert Garcia, the Technology and Innovation Department (TI) set out to develop an Open Data Policy (Policy) and related standards, with guidance from the City’s Technology and Innovation Commission (Commission), to implement modern Citywide practices for sharing data with the public, staff, and policy makers.
The purpose of this Policy is to set guidelines for incorporating an open data framework into existing and future systems and procedures, and to aid in determining which datasets should be made public, how to make datasets public, and how to maintain the existing published datasets.
The City’s Open Data information will be made accessible on the DataLB Hub Portal and shall meet open data standards as outlined in the Policy.
All City departments shall participate in a Citywide data inventory process to determine what datasets are appropriate for inclusion and how they can be made public. Each department will be asked to assign a Data Coordinator as the primary point of contact for the Open Data program. The Data Coordinators will work with TI to realize the vision of the Open Data program across the City. The Data Coordinator will depend on subject matter expertise within the...
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