QUESTION
What does the future look like for the city's open data program, and what resources are needed?
1:15:15
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3 min
Martha Norrick specifies the Office of Technology and Innovation's future goals for the open data program and emphasizes the need for more resources.
- Norrick expresses excitement for the program's future, focusing on data literacy, international collaborations, and enhancing the Socrata platform's user interface.
- She highlights the ongoing collaboration with international open data programs, mentioning partnerships with cities in South Korea, Europe, and frequent collaboration with the London Office of Technology Innovation.
- The open data team aims to expand significantly, although Norrick is proud of the current team's ability to engage millions with existing resources.
- Norrick ultimately emphasizes the necessity for more resources to further develop the program's capabilities.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:15:15
And my last question is just related to the future.
1:15:21
What what do what what do you wanna see?
1:15:24
What does it look like in 5, 10 years?
1:15:27
What are some are there any opportunities for collaborations or partnerships?
1:15:31
What are you most looking forward to and what do you need to make that happen?
1:15:35
I know we are constantly talking about the budget and resources you said it yourself multiple times that you know, agencies use that as a reason for why they can't make their own deadlines, which is understandable.
1:15:48
But what do you how do you wanna see the office expand?
1:15:50
What do you need?
1:15:51
How many more people do you need?
1:15:53
How much more money do you need?
1:15:56
Yeah.
1:15:56
Thank you.
1:15:56
Of it, all of the people and
Martha Norrick
1:15:58
all of them.
1:15:58
Give me
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:15:59
a number.
Martha Norrick
1:15:59
Give me all that stuff.
1:16:01
I think the you know, we're really excited about the about this program.
1:16:04
I think, you know, there's not a lot of programs that I think still maintain this level of excitement and enthusiasm after 10 years of of I don't know.
1:16:14
Maybe I maybe I shouldn't say that.
1:16:15
I maybe there's lots of things people are very excited about.
1:16:17
I'm very excited about Open Data.
1:16:19
After 10 years still, we are you know, things that I feel really passionately about include data literacy.
1:16:26
You know, again, like, with this new frontier of new tools and new new applications of of large language models or AI or machine learning in in government context or even in just people's sort of everyday lives.
1:16:39
I think having the the skills and knowledge to understand how to how to kind of interpret a dataset, how to how to know, like, how your personal data looks in in datasets, These are all gonna be really foundational pieces of, you know, being a citizen in in in this new era.
1:17:01
And I think open data is an amazing tool to help, you know, build that education and or, you know, build that sort of knowledge among among the citizenry of of this, of the city and world.
1:17:12
We love collaborating with open data programs from around this from around the country, from around the world.
1:17:18
One of the coolest things we get to do is is meet open data programs, you know, from from other countries.
1:17:24
We've we've met with with cities in South Korea, with the different cities in Europe with we collaborate with the London Office of Technology Innovation pretty frequently.
1:17:33
Many of them will participate in our open day
UNKNOWN
1:17:35
to week
Martha Norrick
1:17:36
events coming up in March, And I think I also, you know, referenced that we've we are also excited to collaborate with other users of the Socrata platform.
1:17:47
To help drive improvements there and make the user interface easier for for everyone.
1:17:52
Yeah.
1:17:53
I think, you know, we can always do more with more.
1:17:55
I'm I would love to see the data team, you know, the open data team sort of, you know, to, you know I to to build it as large as we possibly can, but you know, I think I'm really proud of this team and the work that they've done and the way they've been able to keep this program sort of really alive and and evolving and and and and serve remains, you know, millions of people with, you know, with the resources that we have.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:18:19
So you don't need any more resources?
Martha Norrick
1:18:21
I need all the the resource.
1:18:22
I need you to be very clear
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:18:25
on that you need more.
Martha Norrick
1:18:27
We appreciate your advocacy on behalf of the data program.
1:18:29
It's
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:18:30
all these agencies.
1:18:31
Okay.
1:18:31
Well, thank you so much.
1:18:32
You have done tremendous and look forward to any of the remaining follow ups.
1:18:37
I'm gonna pass it off to Irene so we can move into public testimony.