Data Points Podcast Episode 54 - Tactical Data Use with Sunlight

Enabling more use of public data is a key challenge for cities across the country. This week, we will be talking with our partners from the Sunlight Foundation about their efforts to improve Tactical Data Engagement (http://sunlightfoundation.com/tde). For this episode, we’re joined by Stephen Larrick (https://sunlightfoundation.com/about/team/slarrick/), Open Cities Director at Sunlight. Stephen leads all city-focused work for Sunlight, including work we've done together on open data through the What Works Cities Initiative (https://whatworkscities.bloomberg.org/).

Sunlight's recent work has focused increasingly on putting city data to use. To do that, they have piloted a technique called Tactical Data Engagement. Madison, WI, was one of their pilot sites and through a focus on equitable neighborhoods (https://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/open-cities/tactical-data-engagement/equitable-neighborhoods-in-madison-wi/) they were able to build user personas (http://sunlightfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/activating-neighborhoods-in-madison-wi.pdf) and a public data use toolki (https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/communitydevelopment/funding/b-resources/2534/)t for residents to use. Many cities are also interested in this work and through a recent workshop, Sunlight and cities were able to generate 39 fresh ideas for community use of open data (https://sunlightfoundation.com/2018/04/19/39-fresh-ideas-for-how-to-support-community-use-of-open-data/) for cities across the country to use.

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