White House Rolls Out 'Opportunity Project' Open Data Resource
The Obama administration unveiled its new open data initiative, the Opportunity Project -- a resource meant to assist individuals in using government data to access resources in their communities, during an event at the White House Monday. "Federal open data…
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is much more meaningful when we do some of the work of combining and curating so that the data can really paint a comprehensive picture of something that matters a lot to people, which is access to assets in their community," said Aden Van Noppen, adviser to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith. Van Noppen said the project was developed as a collaboration of 12 software development teams, plus subject matter experts, for use within Baltimore, Detroit, Kansas City, Missouri, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington. It uses "user-friendly digital tools to expose inequality and access to opportunity" and help many different groups access that information, Van Noppen said. Users of the various tools provided by the project can access aggregated federal data collected from their community related to affordable housing, transportation, schools and more, said Van Noppen. "The project represents a collaboration [of] the White House, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Census Bureau, private sector and local communities," said Smith. "It's been a true collaboration." The Opportunity Project is at www.opportunity.census.gov.