The Bloomberg Philanthropies-backed effort means Baltimore city government will get help from the Johns Hopkins-based Center for Government Excellence.
Executive Director Beth Blauer and the team at the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) have spent a lot of time traveling to help other cities use data over the last year.
Now they’ll only have to go downtown.
Baltimore is among a dozen new urban locales being added to the roster of What Works Cities. As part of theBloomberg Philanthropies-backed effort, GovEx will work with the city on data and accountability. Along with being close, Blauer said the team is also happy to be working with a city that has been a “stalwart” of civic data use, both internally through CitiStat and in making it publicly available through the OpenBaltimore portal.
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