Jan 27, 2021
Asheville, N.C., is powering up its Office of Data and Performance, a new initiative to increase transparency and provide data-driven accountability.
The city established the office in December to support a results-based, data-driven approach to city programs and to deliver clear communication about program goals, processes and performance.
The office will be organized as a cross-departmental team, consisting of staff working in budgeting, community engagement, equity, GIS and law enforcement. The initiative will be managed by the IT Services Department and staffed by three IT open data employees. The office’s initial goals are to help understand the impacts of city services and projects, establish baselines and benchmarks for improvement and to monitor performance and identify issues and respond proactively.
New services expand coverage in rural areas, give first responders vertical-axis location data and provide interoperability between land mobile radios and push-to-talk devices.
By Gerry Gebel
Jan 26, 2021
In many ways, the federal government’s IT challenges are similar to those of commercial businesses. Both sectors know that as technologies and data sources grow and evolve, updating legacy IT technologies is critical. As a result, government agencies have been investing in modern technologies for several years.
However, an increase in spending has not resulted in agile operations, more secure data or almost any return on investment. Why is that? According to a recent Accenture research report, federal agencies are “deploying technologies in pockets, with limited tools for scaling and delivering sustained impact.”
Piecing together separate tools for IT modernization is not only ineffective, it’s more costly. In fact, the report said, “during 2014–19, spending on the maintenance of legacy IT systems rose by 13%, to consume nearly 80% of the U.S. government’s total IT spending.”
By GCN Staff
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