NYC secured a grant to release its geo-support codebase on GitHub
Mike Flowers · Michael Flowers, New York City // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 35:01
NYC Chief Analytics Officer Mike Flowers answers a question about crowdsourcing municipal data work and institutionalizing community-built tools.
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“We got a grant from The eponymous learning foundation. And we're going to use that to put the geo support in the, on GitHub in the hopes that people such as yourself will go out and come up with apps that will allow us to leverage what the citizenry is doing and knows more effectively.”
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