Philadelphia's approach to making government data public differs from other efforts around the country, and it's paying off, according to GovFresh.
Several months ago, with the unveiling of the OpenDataPhilly website, the City of Philadelphia joined the growing fraternity of cities across the country and around the world to release municipal data sets in open, developer friendly formats. But the City of Brotherly Love did things a bit differently than most of its contemporaries.
The city actively partnered with outside parties, private firms, not-for-profits and universities to help set the direction of the city’s open data efforts. The OpenDataPhilly website itself, although it’s brimming with data collected and maintained by the city, was developed by the geospatial and civic application firm Azavea, and is not hosted or operated by the city. The website, and the larger open data effort in Philadelphia, operates under the stewardship of a group made up of both public sector and private sector partners.
Source: GovFresh
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