QUESTION
Are there differences in open data training for agency staff versus the public?
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The public has access to the same training materials as agency staff, but additional programs target specific public engagement initiatives. - Training materials for Open Data Coordinators (ODCs) are accessible to both staff and the public via the open data portal. - A dedicated section for ODCs on the portal indicates materials are slightly more oriented towards agency employees. - Programs like the Open Data Ambassador's program and Open Data Week focus on public engagement. - Agencies are encouraged to promote public engagement with open data sets through various communication channels.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
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Do you do you know if there's a difference between the trainings held for agency staff versus community members and the public?
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On the open data.
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There's
Martha Norrick
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the support we give to open data coordinators and sort of onboarding them into the open data program, understanding sort of their their responsibilities under the open data law, helping them sort of you know, navigate their own agencies and and getting data published.
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All of the materials though that we use to train ODCs are available on the open data portal.
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On the very bottom of the open data site, there's a little section that says for open data coordinators.
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Anybody can go there to see all of the different training materials and and materials that we've created over the years to support open data coordinators.
0:17:43
So the public is certainly welcome to look at that.
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It's, you know, aimed a little bit more towards to the employees who are working on the open data program in the context of being the named open data Nader.
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And then on the public engagement side, we have in collaboration with Beta NYC, the Open Data Ambassador's program, which I know you're very familiar with, Chair.
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We also have programming in, you know, open day to week is coming up soon.
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A huge week of amazing public offerings.
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We also encourage agencies to do public engagement around their open data sets throughout the year, whether that's publishing, including that in communication agency communications, like, you know, newsletters or tweets or or other sorts of ways that agencies feature their own work, and we look to open data coordinators to kind of leave the charge there.