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Draft an Open Data Policy to propose to the city #2

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mkchandler opened this issue Feb 16, 2016 · 1 comment
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Draft an Open Data Policy to propose to the city #2

mkchandler opened this issue Feb 16, 2016 · 1 comment

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mkchandler commented Feb 16, 2016

Description

While Oklahoma City does currently have on Open Data Portal, it is limited to mostly GIS data and there is no official policy that data must be open. We would like to change that by following the lead of other cities and proposing an Open Data Policy. This would outline that all data that can be provided to the public should be available via the Open Data Portal. Examples of data currently not available:

  • Budget
  • Crime
  • Transit
  • Spending

Some details about what is and is not available can be found on the U.S. City Open Data Census site: http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/oklahoma%20city

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Code for Tulsa was able to work with their city council and pass an official Open Data Policy. They outlined the process in a blog post here: http://codefortulsa.org/2014/09/25/tulsas-open-data-policy-what-we-learned/

Code for America has a page with resources about Open Data here: https://www.codeforamerica.org/practices/open/open-data/

Who will use/benefit from this project?

Having more data available to the public can lead to a more informed public. The data could be looked at and visualized in interesting ways, such as what we are doing with Open Budget OKC.

Project Needs (dev/design/resources)

  • People familiar with writing legislation
  • Networking with local city council members

Status

Currently working on a draft of an initial Open Data Policy.

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A repo for this project has been created here: https://github.com/codeforokc/open-data-policy

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