Mayor Rawlings-Blake Signs Executive Order Creating Open Data Initiative for City Government
Today, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake signed an executive order creating Baltimore City’s first open data initiative, called OpenBaltimore. The Mayor ordered all city agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to make data sets under their control available to the public. This initiative will promote a more transparent government and encourage the public to participate in efforts to make government more effective and efficient. read more
The goal of OpenBaltimore is to provide, to the public, access to City data in an effort that supports government transparency, openness and innovative uses that will help improve the lives of Baltimore residents, visitors and businesses through use of technology. OpenBaltimore will enable the local developer community to develop applications that will hopefully help the city solve problems read more on OpenBaltimore