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Service Agreement for an Open Data Portal and Performance Measurement Dashboard for the Government 2.0 Initiative (NB)
This item requests approval by the City Commission to authorize the City Manager to enter into a specified source contract with Socrata, Inc., for The Socrata Open Data Platform™ and GovStat™ to make data available through shared public datasets and display performance metrics using interactive dashboards.
Explanation
In an ongoing effort to provide transparency, participation, and collaboration in government, City of Gainesville staff seeks to take an initial major step forward with the implementation of Government 2.0, as described in the City Commission’s Strategic Initiative 4.2. This initiative was adopted in the FY2013 City Commission Strategic Plan to enhance service provisions and provide information to foster citizen engagement.
The draft agreement will provide a cloud-based, vendor-hosted offering delivered as a turnkey, configurable solution for The Socrata Open Data Platform™, the Socrata version of an open data portal, and GovStat™, the Socrata version of a performance measurement dashboard. The Socrata Open Data Platform™ will make City datasets available to the public in a variety of industry-standard formats and will provide accessible sorting, searching, filtering, and downloading capabilities for the development of web-based and mobile applications. GovStat™ will allow for the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of City services through visualizations available on an external citizens dashboard and internal management dashboard.
Staff recommends a hosted solution to make data available to the public. Due to the cost of setting up servers, obtaining database licenses, and the significant resources required to initiate an in-house development and on-going maintenance, selecting a vendor with all of these components in place is imperative to provide this service.
After reviewing major municipal open data port...
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