Fwd: City of Madison: Open Data Survey

[Davi P]

Looks like some new energy is going into reviving Madison's Open Data initiative. The survey is very short.

--Davi

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Sector67 Team <te...@sector67.org> wrote:

FYI if anyone is interested in engaging in more open data interfaces from the City of Madison here's your opportunity for input below.

Chris

Chris Meyer
Director
Sector67

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From: Kratowicz, Karalyn <KKrat...@cityofmadison.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:34 PM
Subject: City of Madison: Open Data Survey
To: "Kratowicz, Karalyn" <KKrat...@cityofmadison.com>

Good Afternoon,

 

I’m writing to engage you in a survey the City of Madison recently released around open data. The survey is designed to gather insights from our community on the type of data/information that is most important to them. Open data is data that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed by anyone. Working in the public sector, the City of Madison believes we gather data in the public trust and that public data should be free to use by anyone so long as we ensure protection of any personally identifiable information.  

 

The City has been working to relaunch our open data program with the Sunlight Foundation through the What Works Cities initiative from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Together we are piloting an approach called Tactical Data Engagement: a four step process to increase open data’s social impact.

 

Our most recent efforts around open data are threefold:

 

1. Relaunch our portal to an ESRI based platform at www.cityofmadison.com/data
2. Compile a list of publishing plans for each City agency that includes their intent to publish data onto the open data portal
3. Launch a survey on the City of Madison open data portal that will help us to find a focus area for additional data release

 

As we work through step one in Tactical Data Engagement, which is to find a focus area, we need the community’s feedback.

 

Please take a moment to complete the survey, which is also linked on the City’s open data portal (www.cityofmadison.com/data) to let us know what information would be most impactful for you to have accessible on the open data portal.  

 

As next steps in the Tactical Data Engagement, we will be looking for individuals to interview about the focus area selected. If you are interested in being interviewed, please include your email address in the survey where prompted.

 

Please share this email with others who may be interested in completing the survey.

 

Any questions or comments you have can be directed to Kara Kratowicz, Data Projects Coordinator (kkrat...@cityofmadison.com).

 

Thank you for your time,

 

Kara

 

Karalyn Kratowicz

Data Projects Coordinator

City of Madison

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210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd

4th Floor - Room 406

Madison, WI 53703

T:  608.266.4030

E: kkrat...@cityofmadison.com

 

 

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[Stephen Larrick]

Hey everyone!

Following up on this, the Sunlight Foundation is working with social impact firm Reboot to conduct open data user research for the City of Madison. Per the survey referenced, our specific line of inquiry is around how open data can better connect to users working to improve Madison's neighborhoods. 

Some of my colleagues leading that research are in town next week and would love to talk to folks from Hacking Madison about the open data program and what could be done to make it more useful for civic hackers. Please message me if you are interested in providing feedback and have availability on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday for a ~hour long semi-structured conversation (happy to buy you coffee/a beer/lunch!).

Feel free to call me on my cell 978-846-4099 to schedule, or if you have questions.

Thanks!

Stephen

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