How Accountability and Transparency Are Improving Public Finance – Open information really does improve how cities operate

These buzzwords can instill fear and trepidation in even the most progressive and tech-savvy public officials, but open information really does improve how cities operate.

"Every step of the way you should anticipate getting pushback from whoever’s been there the longest," Rawlings-Blake said recently at the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, D.C. "Making all the data as real time as possible doesn’t sit well with some people."

by Liz Farmer

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