What would make this site a information and knowledge resource for state and city officials?

[opendatainitiative]

What would make this site a information and knowledge resource for state and city officials?

[sarob]

Explain the process of idea of open data, building portal, customer service approach to city customers, building trust within the state agencies and city/school organizations

[sarob]

The ideal relationship, leadership, power sharing between governor, treasury, legislature, auditor, librarian, and cities can be explained

[sarob]

Set Ohio focused meeting with Frank Kohstall. Create the workshop outline to teach the heavy customer service approach Ohio that has taken up to 15 people working with cities over three years to get 1000 cities onboarded. Explaining the open data onboarding and operations.

[sarob]

Set Livermore focused meeting with Glazer and Baker staff to discuss CA government financial transparency. We want influence other bay area legislators to join once we have an example of work from this effort to show them. Start to meeting agenda.

1. Importance of open data, government financial transparency improving understanding of major projects and issues, e.g. transportation, water, power, pensions, and high speed rail.
2. Reducing FOIA requests and answering questions before they are asked
3. California Treasury Office working with PIRG they are a recognized neutral third party to show where California needs to improve on open data.
4. Set up open data workshops with policy organizations PIRG, Sunlight Foundation, and California Policy Center. This will use the available city and state data to improve and update California services. Comparisons to other states and cities. Teach government officials how to better understand their constituents.

[sarob]

One style of workshop would be a hackathon using the available city and state data to improve and updating California services along with comparisons to other states and cities. Another workshop style would teach government officials how to better understand their constituents.