Make Our Country Transparent
According to Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, when a city provides access to valuable data through an open data portal, it can inspire innovative solutions from the community. During a recent webinar hosted by What Works Cities, an initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Gallego stated that an open data portal not only promotes transparency but also encourages […]
Accessing crash data in Delaware has become more user-friendly with the State’s Open Data Portal. The Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security, in partnership with various state agencies, has created a crash data portal to provide drivers with the information they need to make safer decisions on the road. The dashboard is updated monthly […]
The award-winning “B-Clear” data portal of the City of Bloomington has been updated, which the city administration is excited to announce. The new version of the data portal has enhanced features for viewing and analyzing data sets, as well as creating visualizations of city data with the help of both in-built visualization tools and external […]
Opendatasoft, a global company dedicated to making data accessible to all, announced today that the City of Long Beach in California has chosen to continue using their technology for its open data portal. Long Beach, which has been recognized as a top 10 digital city for 12 years by the Center for Digital Government, initially […]
List of websites, where you can check property tax for almost every parcel and property in Washington State. You have only have to know the parcel id, but you can check it on ParcelLookup or thepropertydata. County Assessor Treasurer ADAMS Assessor Treasurer ASOTIN Assessor Treasurer BENTON Assessor Treasurer CHELAN Assessor Treasurer CLALLAM Assessor Treasurer CLARK […]
There are many websites on the internet where we can search for information about people. Unfortunately, most of them are paid, and information will not necessarily be interesting to us. Of course, we can search various public registers where data is available for free, but it is not very convenient. Recently searching the internet I […]
While browsing a group of my city on Facebook I found a post in which one of the residents was amazed at how much the officials in our city earn. After entering the site, I discovered that it contains data on earnings in virtually all states! The OpenGovPay website contains as many as 70 million […]
Data.gov is a government website containing over 260,000 datasets about: Agriculture, Climate, Consumer, Ecosystems, Education, Energy, Finance, Health, Local, Government, Manufacturing, Maritime, Ocean, Public, Safety, Science & Research. What is Open Data? The term Open Government Data is associated with social initiatives that aim to help national governments prepare, organize and implement their public information […]
Yes, they are! One of the largest websites containing information on the salaries of public administration employees is OpenGovPay. We can find there not only information about the earnings of officials, but also salaries of professors at public universities, police officers, teachers, etc. This is because in practice they are also government employees, because they […]
Transparency is necessary to prevent fraud, waste and abuse in our government. Thanks to the California Public Records Act, we have the opportunity to check how much employees of public institutions earn. One of the biggest websites providing California public pay database is CalSalaries. You can choose from 6 categories: Schools, Counties, State, School Districts […]
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