Stephen Larrick
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Increase the social impact of open data with user personas
Understanding who uses open data and how helps city staff share public information in ways that are most likely to result in social impact. At “Designing for Community Use," our workshop on the What Works Cities on Tour, we helped city officials brainstorm potential users of open data, develop perso → Read More
Bringing empathy to data science at the University of Chicago’s Civic ScopeAthon
Open data can be a powerful tool for community advocates working to solve local problems. There are a lot of folks out there devising strategies for how to best support community data users to have local impact, including our own Open Cities team through our Tactical Data Engagement guide. We want t → Read More
What city planning taught me about open data
Every day I work with cities to make government data more open and available to the public. I am not a data scientist or analyst, though – I'm a city planner. This is how my background in making cities better has helped my thinking about participatory urbanism and approach to opening data. → Read More
For open data that matters, you need to get tactical
Commentary: Stephen Larrick, open cities director at the Sunlight Foundation, says leaders now have the tools to complete the full life cycle of open data. → Read More
On PARK(ing) Day, five things open data advocates can learn from tactical urbanism
Two processes that emphasize observing a community’s needs, experimenting with low-cost ways to meet those needs together with members of the community, and iterating based on feedback. → Read More
DC data policy balances privacy, security and openness
The District of Columbia's new Data Policy builds on the good work of other American cities working through how to balance competing interests with its strong commitment to open by default and strong commitments to data protection and privacy. → Read More
Toward more open, data-driven cities
Sharing our progress on the What Works Cities initiative, two years in. → Read More
Connect open data to residents’ lives with our Tactical Data Engagement guide
Announcing "Tactical Data Engagement", a new Sunlight resource to help city open data programs go beyond mere _access_ toward co-creation for community impact. → Read More
How to invite feedback on an open data policy
Matt Bailey spoke to us about his experience with collaborative drafting of an open data policy for Washington, D.C. → Read More
Tracking collaborative policy for open data
Making government transparent and accountable. → Read More
The big picture for Open Data Policies Decoded: Helping cities leverage data-driven policy remix
Remixing open data policies can be beneficial for cities. (Image credit: OpenGov Foundation's Madison project.) Sunlight recently announced Open Data Policies Decoded, a new web resource developed in partnership with the OpenGov Foundation to help connect great policy solutions to the open data initiatives and public officials that need them. ... → Read More
Shouldn’t text be open data too? The search for an inclusive data definition
Open data policies should be remixed and reformulated to best suit individual cities' needs. (Photo credit: Justin Grimes/Flickr) As our friends at the OpenGov Foundation know all too well, open access to the law is not a given in American cities: Many, if not most, of the city ordinances, executive ... → Read More
A closer look at the problem of open data policy that isn't open
In an ironic twist, many open data policies are stuck in difficult-to-access formats. (Photo credit: Marino González/Flickr) Earlier today, we announced Open Data Policies Decoded, a new web resource to help communities across the country find and share their open data best practices. We developed this tool to help address ... → Read More
Opening up open data policy: Introducing Open Data Policies Decoded
Open Data Policies Decoded, a new collaboration between Sunlight and the OpenGov Foundation. At the Sunlight Foundation, we care about open government data and want to provide tools to empower advocates — both inside and outside the public sector — to improve and spread the public policy that is making ... → Read More
Announcing Sunlight's new 'Public Policy for Public Data Checklist'
Check out Sunlight's new Public Policy for Public Data Checklist, opening up valuable resources from our What Works Cities efforts. As a core part of the Sunlight Local Team’s participation in the What Works Cities initiative, we work directly with city halls across the country to provide technical assistance to ... → Read More
Crowdlaw and open data policy: A perfect match?
Crowdlaw allows anyone to submit comments and annotations to draft policy. (Image credit: Madison, a tool from the OpenGov Foundation) The open government community has long envisioned a future where all public policy is collaboratively drafted online and in the open — a future in which we (the people) don’t ... → Read More
6 more cities join the What Works Cities initiative as demand for open data soars
Six more cities are joining the What Works Cities initiative! The Sunlight Foundation is excited to announce that six more cities are joining the What Works Cities initiative: Boston; Charlotte; Little Rock, Ark.; Milwaukee; Raleigh, N.C.; and Victorville, Calif. Of these Sunlight is providing technical expertise to Charlotte, Little Rock, ... → Read More
Tulsa brings a new kind of energy to its open data policy and practice
The city of Tulsa, Okla. (Photo credit: Kool Cats Photography) The Sunlight Foundation and our partners at the Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx) continue to accelerate the municipal open data movement through our participation in the What Works Cities initiative. Sunlight has supported local governments in ... → Read More
Dear Santa, open your data
We at the Sunlight Foundation believe in transparency and accountability for our leaders. That’s why this holiday season, the presents under the tree aren’t the only things that we're eagerly anticipating being opened. The time has come for Santa Claus to open his data. Though Santa Claus’s exact and complete ... → Read More
The second round of What Works Cities: Building a movement with open data
We are thrilled to officially announce the addition of another 13 cities as part of the next cohort participating in the What Works Cities initiative. With today’s announcement, the program’s total reach has more than doubled and now includes 21 cities in 15 states, bringing us closer to the ambitious ... → Read More