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WHAT WORKS CITIES OPEN DATA PROJECT UPDATE
Staff Contact: Jean Moreno, Executive Officer, Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects
Staff Contact: Darcie McCracken, Deputy City Clerk
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Purpose and Policy Guidance
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to review and consider a draft resolution that outlines a commitment by the City of Glendale to develop an Open Data Program to increase transparency and the community's access to information, improve service delivery, to engage residents and the community in dialogue around data, and to reduce time spent responding to requests for information.
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Background
Glendale was selected to participate in the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities initiative to receive free technical assistance in focused content areas aimed at helping cities leverage data and evidence in decision-making. For additional information on the What Works Cities program, please refer to the What Works Cities Fact Sheet. One of the content areas in which Glendale is receiving technical assistance is related to the establishment of an open data program. "Open data" is a data available in machine-readable formats that can be used, reused, or redistributed by anyone, for free, with no restrictions on access. Data is defined as statistical, factual, quantitative, or qualitative information.
On March 3, 2017, the City convened an open data working team made up of representatives from the City Manager's Office, City Clerk's Office, City Attorney's Office, Finance, Police, Fire, Code Compliance, Building Safety, Water Services, Public Affairs, and Technology & Innovation to work with the Sunlight Foundation (Sunlight), a What Works Cities partner. The role of this team is to assess the city's current practices around data publication, and to explore opportunities to help improve service delivery and support the proactive release of public information. The city's work with Sunlight is comprised of two scopes: 1) ...
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