OPEN DATA

Minneapolis just passed an open data policy.  They expect to have a portal open by the end of 2014, that will allow data sets to be posted online.  What a novel and forward reaching idea!!  Open data combines government transparency , bottom up crowd sourcing and high tech geekery into predictable combinations of numbers, that can be used by ride share companies and bicycle groups to better access city routes. Instead of requiring the typical tedious and frustrating hoops to jump through to get at public data, open data encourages city data access easily, without impediment.

It's the people's data and it should be as open as an open meeting and just as easy to access.  Kudos for Minneapolis being the 16th city in the nation to pass this.
Now if only the City of Little Falls would follow suit.  I will be doing the asking.  You read it here first....this will be part if my campaign message. Instead of a closed up bureaucracy  this plan gives people  a way to be more involved and interested in the workings of their city.

Now that makes sense to me. How bout you??