Civic Innovations

Technology, Government Innovation, and Open Data


July 2010

  • The Case for Open Transit Data

    This is an awesome short film from StreetFilms.org that convincingly lays out the case for open transit data. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13764646&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=9086c0&fullscreen=1 Later this year, the State of Delaware will – for the first time ever – release all of its transit data in open formats. This is the result of a bill introduced this past legislative session… Continue reading

About Me

I am the former Chief Data Officer for the City of Philadelphia. I also served as Director of Government Relations at Code for America, and as Director of the State of Delaware’s Government Information Center. For about six years, I served in the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), and helped pioneer their work with state and local governments. I also led platform evangelism efforts for TTS’ cloud platform, which supports over 30 critical federal agency systems.