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Making Data Actionable

How to foster transparency initiatives that illuminate and motivate citizen engagement.

Our Management Insights colleague Feather O'Connor Houstoun attended a recent Aspen Institute meeting on transparency in government, and conclude it needs to be about more than opening up data. It needs to be about making data actionable.READ MORE

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.