Rochester, Minnesota and Las Vegas, Nevada are teaming up with IBM on using predicitive analytics for law enforcement. The efforts are part of IBM’s broader Smarter Cities initiative which uses analytics and other tools to provide big data to officials about how their cities and states look and operate. CivSource spoke with Mark Cleverley, Director, [...]
In releasing his administration’s fourth Report on State Performance, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell unveiled an interactive dashboard that monitors agency activities, priorities and challenges. The 2009-10 report helps citizens and other interested readers evaluate Pennsylvania’s efforts to deliver services during the national economic downturn, the governor said.
In a presentation at the University of Maryland this week, Governor Martin O’Malley said that government transparency and openness, through the relentless collection of data, was the future of public policy. He also spoke of the challenges in completing a data-reliant picture when coordinating with other states or county jurisdictions.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released further guidance on how recipients of stimulus funds must report to the federal government. Central to this updated document, are guidelines on how to define job creation and what technical data requirements must accompany reports due in October.
