Open government proponent Seamus Kraft, founder and Executive Director of the Open Gov Foundation, a local non-profit dedicated to furthering citizen participation in government through technology, believes this move towards open source and accessible data is an encouraging one. "D.C.'s new economic dashboard points towards the next iteration in the world of civic data: ensuring open data is not only available, but truly accessible and understandable to as many citizens as possible," Kraft told DC Inno. "Pairing data with a straightforward interpretation layer is vital so that residents actually use the information pumped out by their government. I'm excited to see this open source effort grow and improve as more citizens and businesses engage with it."
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