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Big Data Alone Isn’t Enough to Spark City Innovation

Cities are complex places that can lack the infrastructure and processes to stitch together their constituencies. Today, cities are innovating, but many times that innovation is laser focused around data, big data and getting more data. This only gives us a glimpse of the reality regarding citizen experiences within a city. In short, big data by itself is insufficient for innovation.

In a guest commentary for the City Accelerator, Ceasar McDowell, President of the Interaction Institute for Social Change and Professor of the Practice of Community Development at MIT, argues we must bring together the public to gain a holistic picture of the problems in our cities and the solutions needed to build communities that are economically healthy.

City Accelerator News Staff

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/cityaccelerator/blog/McDowell-Big-Data-Isnt-Enough-to-Spark-City-Innovation.html

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