We were in Baltimore this week for the Federal Reserve of Richmond's conference on Strategic Data-Use to Stabilize Neighborhoods. We covered community-based efforts to use data as a means to mobilize people and resources to gather and analyze data and affect change. In addition to this panel session we were also part of the closing session with Tom Kinglsey of the Urban Institute and some of our NNIP partners, Mike Schramm and Chris Walker of LISC who discussed the implications and opportunities of the community information, Opendata and OpenGov movements and how accessible government data can spur growth and development in our communities.

Below is the main presentation on communinty driven data work in Alameda County:

This presentation covers the importance of and need for fully open data in local government to encourage development and new stabilization initiatives: