At a Palo Alto City Council meeting on Monday, Feb. 3, Mayor Nancy Shepherd read an Open Data by Default proclamation that firmly established the
Continue ReadingIntroduction Every community makes it their business to know their unique qualities. Great communities systematically leverage these qualities to sustain and improve their city or
Continue ReadingThe following essay was submitted to the Alliance for Innovation by Jonathan Reichental (Chief Information Officer of the City of Palo Alto) and Sheila Tucker
Continue ReadingHacking 101 When US Navy warplanes returned to base after bombing missions during World War 2, engineers would use hacksaws to cut pieces off broken
Continue ReadingAs of early 2013, there are over a billion active monthly users of Facebook and almost 700 million daily users. People from across the world
Continue ReadingMaking your agency’s data easily accessible to community members and computer applications has the potential to be a public sector game-changer. We call this process
Continue ReadingIn his second guest column for EfficientGov, Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental looks at the Open Data movement, and the criticality of “open government” in
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