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RESOLUTION NO. R17-51
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE, MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN DATA PROGRAM FOR THE CITY OF GLENDALE.
Staff Contact: Jean Moreno, Executive Officer Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects
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Purpose and Recommended Action
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to waive reading beyond the title and adopt a resolution creating an Open Data Program for the City of Glendale.
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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. 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 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.
To do this work, the City convened an open data 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, to explore opportunities to help improve service delivery, and to support the proactive release of public information on an ongoing basis.
The city's work with Sunlight is comprised of two scopes: 1) the development of an open data framework and associated policies that make sense for Glendale's operation; and, 2) the identification of opportunities for stakeholder engagement in collaborative problem-solving around open data concepts. S...
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