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Election Data Released for Democracy Hackathon
Today, the Office of the City Commissioners released six data sets. The new data sets could be used to improve the Election Day experience and promote civic engagement in Philadelphia. The released...
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Introducing the Procurement Advocate and Entrepreneur Office Hours
The City will host Entrepreneur Office Hours at the Pipeline Philly co-working space on April 20th. Photo courtesy of Pipeline Philly. The City has long discussed ways to improve its contracting and...
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Vote for Philadelphia in the StateScoop50 Awards!
Last week, StateScoop announced the nominees of the 2015 StateScoop 50 Awards, honoring the best and the brightest who make state government more efficient and effective. The City of Philadelphia was...
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alpha.phila.gov – Update #5: Property
The goal in redesigning phila.gov is to build a municipal website that starts with the needs of people who use it. As we dug into our web analytics, it became clear that many Philadelphians come to...
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Toward Unified Digital Analytics
Well we know where we’re going But we don’t know where we’ve been And we know what we’re knowing But we can’t say what we’ve seen The opening lines of Road to Nowhere by the Talking Heads perfectly...
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Play Open Data Query Quizzo this Thursday!
You wouldn’t want Philly Tech Week to interfere with your weekly quizzo. But what if it didn’t have to? The Office of Innovation and Technology has partnered with the Philadelphia School District to...
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How we develop and deploy alpha.phila.gov (a WordPress site) to Amazon Web...
As you may know, we’re building a platform for the delivery of city government services, available for public feedback right now at alpha.phila.gov. We’re starting small but thinking big, so we’re...
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Department of Public Health Releases Health Services Data
The Department of Public Health released five data sets today relating to Health Services provided throughout the city. The release includes: Ryan White HIV Treatment Centers Healthy Start Community...
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Adding Socrata to the Mix
Four years ago on April 25, 2011, Philadelphia’s technology community launched OpenDataPhilly, a central clearinghouse of datasets pertaining to Philadelphia produced by government, nonprofit...
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alpha.phila.gov – Update #6: Accessibility
It’s important for alpha.phila.gov to be accessible for anyone regardless of physical ability, so we’ve collaborated with the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University to better understand the...
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