About Open Colorado
This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data. To be successful, it needs to be:
- easy to find;
- easy to license; and
- easy to re-use.
We are drawing on the expertise from those before us mainly data.gov.uk and data.gov.
About Colorado Smart Communities
Our goal is to utilize technology to transform Colorado government at all levels (state, county, and city) to be more transparent, accountable, and accessible. We are comprised of both public and private sector professionals.
We are like a think tank, educational resource, and open source technology community all rolled into one.
If you are a government employee, concerned citizen, journalist, programmer, hacker, elected official, vendor, or techie interested in how you can participate in transforming government in Colorado, we encourage you to join our group.
What is Our Approach?
- Working with the web;
- Keeping things simple: we aim to make the smallest possible changes that will make the web work better;
- Working with the grain: we are not looking to rebuild the world. We appreciate that some things take time; others can be done relatively quickly. Everything has it’s own time and pace;
- Using open standards, open source and open data: these are the core elements of a modular, sustainable system; and
- Building communities, and working with and through them (both inside government and outside).
Over the coming months the site will be developing further as we incorporate your feedback and thoughts.
How Can I Get Involved?
There are a number of ways of getting involved in the project, dependent on your background or interest.
For example:
- Applications: have you built something cool with our data? Share it with us through the Apps page. You never know who might get excited!
- Visualisations: one of the challenges is making data come to life. Have you found a great way of displaying our data? Does it combine with other data to give a new insight? Show us your talent?
- Architecture: would you like to help us make this site better? Get in touch!
