CITYGRAM IN CHARLOTTEMaking Open Data Meaningful at the Neighborhood Level

TWYLA MCDERMOTT Innovation & Technology Manager, City of Charlotte @twylamcdermott !TIFFANY CHU 2014 Code for America Fellow @tchu88

Neighborhood and Business Services

Innovation and Technology

+COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

OPEN DATA

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Rickey H, 57

We’d like a heads up on compatible and incompatible development coming into our community. As things occur around us…

— RICKEY H, PRESIDENT OF REID PARK ASSOCIATION

I want to know what's coming so we can be proactive vs. reactive.

HOW DO PEOPLE FIND OUT WHAT’S

HAPPENING IN THEIR AREA TODAY?

WORD OF MOUTH

WORD OF MOUTH

THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER

CITY LIAISONIF THEIR

NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ONE

WORD OF MOUTH

CITY WEBSITE

IF THEY KNOW WHERE TO LOOK

THE OPPORTUNITY

THE CITY HAS A TON OF RAW DATA IN MANY DEPARTMENTS THAT IS NOT EASILY DISCOVERABLE.

OUR APPROACH

How can we make raw data not only open, but also meaningful to people?

How can open data be a platform for

community engagement?

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Chini N Candice

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SO MANY IDEAS!

SO LITTLE RESOURCES

AWARENESS OF THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA

TEMPER THE STATUS QUO

EMERGENT OUTCOMES

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED THIS YEAR?

DATA + INNOVATION IN CHARLOTTE

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special thanks to Tom Warshauer Jeff Stovall Hyong Yi Pat Mumford The Knight Foundation Susan Patterson Jim van Fleet Jill Bjers Erik Schwartz Livien Yin Lyzi Diamond

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TWYLA MCDERMOTT Innovation & Technology Manager, City of Charlotte @twylamcdermott !TIFFANY CHU 2014 Code for America Fellow