cityforward.org

IBM’s City Forward

Dave Rook, Jeff Berg

February 15, 2014

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An IBM Corporate Citizenship website

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Corporate Citizenship Sponsors City Forward

IBM has developed a thoughtful, comprehensive approach to corporate citizenship that aligns with IBM’s values and maximizes the impact we can make as a global enterprise. We focus on specific societal issues, including the environment, community economic development, education, health, literacy, language and culture.

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City Forward collects data for many cities from sources around the world

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User interface goals

Provide city data from around the globe

Allow the user to compare cities

Allow the user to connect, discuss and take action

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Selecting cities and subjects

First attempt “Global Filters”

Let the user choose anything

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Let's try some business logic

Second attempt “FRED” (Filters Redesigned)

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Can we solve this with the interface?

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A more direct route

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Next steps

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Data Catalog

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There are many players in the open data movement – governments, non-profits, tool makers and developers

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Take a look at what other people are doing with open data.

Data.gov apps

https://www.data.gov/applications

Code for America

http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/

Digital Chicago

http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/open-data-applications/

Open City

http://opencityapps.org/#projects

Beyond Transparency

http://beyondtransparency.org/

cityforward.org

Thank you.